HEALTH 2.0 OR MEDICINE 2.0

APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH CARE

HIMA 5060 Health Informatics Final Project Paper

Viktoriya Semenova

SUMMARY

This paper aims to explore:

The history of emerging Health 2.0 or Medicine 2.0

Benefits Challenges

in application of the internet-based tools such search, blogs, podcasts, tagging, wikis, and networks in the health care and health education

INTRODUCTIONDEFINITION

The term Medicine 2.0 was officially defined in 2004 on an international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine

Medicine 2.0/Health 2.0 is an extensive internet-sharing of health and medical information among health professionals, patients, caregivers, and businesses entities, such as pharmaceutical research and developing companies, manufactures, and health insurance organizations

Medicine 2.0/Health 2.0

Medicine 2.0 refers to the science of

medicine and the practice of

treating or curing patients

Health 2.0 focuses on the business of

health - the delivery, the

quality, the safety and the cost or efficiency of the

people, a practice or facility

Gunther Eysenbach (2008) further elaborates definition of Medicine 2.0 and Health 2.0 such as Medicine 2.0 is a wider concept and includes applications that enable health professionals and biomedical scientists to stay informed of the current knowledge and to improve the quality of the scientific output. Consumers/patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers are the three main user groups of current Medicine 2.0 applications; they are embodied as a triangle:

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CONSUMERS/PATIENTS, HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHERS

Medicine 2.0/Health 2.0 applications on health care: facilitate effective information sharing; these technologies are convenient, fast

and have low cost. simplify access toup-to-date clinical information, patientrecords, and practiceresource utilizationdata contribute to the delivery of a higher

level of customer service for a greater number of patients and better health outcomes

Medical professionals and public are using Web for:

health related information medical education disease management attainment and distribution data for

research collaboration and practice of health

professionals

CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF MEDICINE 2.0/HEALTH 2.0

IMPACT OF MEDICINE 2.0/HEALTH 2.0 APPLICATIONS ON HEALTH CARE

Web net gears provide new technology and new services for healthcare professionals and patients to enable and facilitate specifically social networking, participation, apomediation, collaboration, and openness within and between these user groups

IMPACT OF MEDICINE 2.0/HEALTH 2.0 APPLICATIONS ON HEALTH CARE

Practitioner location-independence is transforming healthcare delivery because internet removes geographical restrictions, allowing patients and healthcare institutions have access to qualified physicians

Medicine 2.0/Health 2.0 increase efficiencies related to administrative tasks, allowing for more interaction with and transfer of information to patients, caregivers, and clinical care coordinators, and monitoring of patient care

Telemedicine enhances senior wellness and preventive care by implementing lifesaving and life enhancing services like in-home monitoring

CHALLENGES OF MEDICINE 2.0/HEALTH 2.0 APPLICATIONS ON HEALTH CARE loss of control over health related information, the safety issues of inaccurate information, ownership and privacy issues limitations of Google as a diagnostic tool patients delay seeking medical advice

CONCLUSION Emerging Health 2.0 or Medicine 2.0 brings

both benefits and challenges in application of the internet-based tools in the health care and health education.

Considerable Internet-sharing of health and medical information has empowered health professionals, patients, caregivers, and businesses entities by available information and software gears.

Powerful communication tools such as blogs, podcasts, tagging, wikis, and networks brought together health care professionals and patients into an effective partnership reshaping the health system