Webicina: Frequently Asked Questions August 26, 2008

After one and a half days I presented Webicina.com, an online service focusing on Medicine 2.0, I’m still receiving plenty of questions so I thought a FAQ page would make things clear.

What is Webicina?

Webicina is a privately held company aiming to build a bridge between physicians and e-patients. Webicina is also open to collaboration and new partners.

How can Webicina help physicians enter the web 2.0 era?

With personalized Medicine 2.0 Packages, step-by-step tutorials, webinars and online image building solutions. Webicina was designed to help physicians from all the medical specialties to get closer to the web 2.0 based world.

Who are e-patients?

They are patients trying to find reliable medical information on the web; they want to communicate with their doctors via e-mail or Skype; and they store their medical files online.

They will want you to answer their web-related questions and recommend them reliable medical sites. Will you be able to help them properly?

Is Webicina only for doctors?

Webicina is primarily for medical professionals and healthcare workers, but is open to other customers as well.

Why do we need a bridge between physicians and e-patients?

The number of e-patients is growing rapidly while the number of web-savvy doctors is not.

The basics of practicing medicine will never change dramatically due to new technologies or the world wide web, it will change the way healthcare is delivered.

Not because of the technology itself or the attention it receives, but because patients will need this kind of knowledge and expertise. And physicians of the 21st century must be ready and qualified to meet these expectations.

What does my membership get me? Which service should I choose?

If you would like an even more efficient medical practice; more productive research or pharma team, Medicine 2.0 packages are created for you.

Medicine 2.0 Package is a personalized set of web 2.0 tools designed to solve your problems. If you would like to know which part of the web you should follow, which websites and services could be useful in your work (from medical blogs through medical wikis to the educational purposes of Second Life), that is what Webicina can help you with. Your membership also gets you a bi-weekly newsletter about the latest improvements regarding your package.

If you would like to learn how to follow the medical papers of your field of interest more easily; how to create a medical blog or how to organize meetings in Second Life, Webicina’s online courses are made for you. You tell us what your problems are with effectiveness and will get access to the online materials and tutorials through which you can easily learn to use the tools and methods you need.

If your patients make a search for your name in search engines and cannot find content that can represent your practice properly, you should choose our online image building solutions.

If you would like your collegues or employees to know more about the possible implications of web 2.0 in your field, Webicina can help you through webinars, workshops and in-person presentations.

How do I pay?

Please contact us for pricing details.

What is next?

In the near future, Webicina also aims to serve as a community platform for those who are interested in the impact of web 2.0 on their specific fields of interest. Webicina will try to connect e.g. cardiologists to let them share thoughts and links; and let them educate each other about medicine 2.0.

If you have another question, please let us know.