Some interesting statistics have recently been published. According to Pharma 2.0:

• 99% of physicians are online for personal or professional purposes
• 85% of offices have broadband
• 83% consider the Internet essential to their practice

At The Deloitte Center, you will find even more details about the web usage of health consumers. Yes, there will be much more patients who seek health-related information on the web and who want to communicate with their doctors via e-mail or Skype.

And if a doctor thinks like that:

being absent from the Web is the surest way of avoiding disclosure of personal information on the Web.

How will he answer the questions about reliable medical online resources?

No, the basics of practicing medicine will never change dramatically due to new technologies or the web. But it will change the way it is practiced. Not because it is so important or so overhyped, but because patients will need this kind of knowledge and expertise. This will happen either you like it or not. And physicians of the 21st century must be ready and qualified to meet these expectations.

And yes, we have innovators who can show us new ways, such as Jay Parkinson.

We have tools to work with:

And we have concepts.

I believe, with opportunities of web 2.0, we can totally change medical education; we can build careers and we can develop a more efficient communication.

Health 2.0 will reform healthcare itself; medicine 2.0 will do the same with education. Or is already doing…

Do you still believe it is just a bubble?