I’m pretty sure one of the most interesting conferences this year will take place in Toronto, Canada between the 4th and 5th of September. I plan to attend it, that’s why I submitted an abstract (for oral presentation) and a panel abstract (with Canadian medical bloggers) as well.

The Medicine 2.0 Congress is organized by Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Associate Professor at the Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and a founding editor-in-chief and publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. (More on the MaRS Blog)

What is Medicine 2.0?

Medicine 2.0 applications, services and tools are Web-based services for health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers, that use Web 2.0 technologies as well as semantic web and virtual reality tools, to enable and facilitate specifically social networking, participation, apomediation, collaboration, and openness within and between these user groups.

And you should also check out an extended article about this web-based aspect of medicine.

I will keep you updated regarding the whole conference and our panel.