how web 2.0 is changing medicine
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A presentation at the 2007 Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing seminar, National Press Club, Washington, D.C. Dean Giustini UBC Biomedical Branch Librarian Vancouver General Hospital April 12th, 2007TRANSCRIPT
- 1.How web 2.0 is changing medicine* Dean Giustini UBC Biomedical Branch Librarian Vancouver General Hospital April 12 th , 2007 *A presentation at the 2007 Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing seminar, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
2. Outline
- Discuss types of social software use in medicine
- How do doctors communicate?
- Evidence-based medicine
- Trends to watch
- Open access (OA)
- Medical publishing 2.0
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 3. Talkingmedicine
- How do physicians communicate?
- Formally
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- Journal articles, print and e-books, conferences
- Informally
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- Conversation, on the wards, online, with residents
- Community of practice (Lave & Wenger)
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 4. Doctors aresocial
- Web 2.0 creates conversations
- Tools, social-software
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- Blogs, wikis, podcasts, video, RSS feeds
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- Socialization
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- Conversation, on the wards, online, rounds with residents
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- Knowledge begins with conversations*
- * Kenneth Megill.Thinking for a living: the Coming Age of Knowledge Work . 2004
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 5. Keytools in theknowledge economy
- Blogs, wikis
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- Is a medical wikipedia the next step?
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- Podcasts & vodcasts
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- Do physicians listen and/ or watch?
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- RSS feeds push content
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- Other
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- tagging, photo & slide sharing
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Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 6. Blogdiscourse in medicine
- Blogs stimulate discussion, self-directed learning &reflective practice
- Useful educational tools
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- Clinical Cases & Images, Ves Dimov, M.D.
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- Kidney Notes blog, Joshua Schwimmer, M.D.
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- Over!My!Med!Body!,
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- Graham Walker, Stanford medical student
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- Medical librarian search blogs
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- To help find medical information,rapidly
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Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 7. Clinical Cases & Images blog Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 8. Good medical wikis
- AskDrWiki.com
- FluWikie.com
- Ganfyd.org
- Just The Facts
- PubDrug
- Wikisurgery.com
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 9. Ganfyd wiki
- AskDrWiki
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 10. Doctor-moderated -
- AskDrWiki
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 11. Content development @ AskDrWiki
- Credentials needed to become an editor or contributor
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- Transparent editorial policy with contributors and credentials listed (Name, degree, location)
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- RSS feeds to notify editors of content changes/ additions.
- New clinical domains:
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- General Surgery, ENT, Vascular Surgery, Hospital Administration, Bio Informatics, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Orthopaedics and Basic Science Editors.
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- Lock downof some content pertaining to medical/ drug dosing.
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- Additions can be made, but not until approved by editors.
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 12. Post-textual web
- Podcasts, vodcasts
- New England Journal of Medicine
- MEDLINE/PubMed indexing
- Trend is toward integration; mash ups
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 13. Post-textual web
- Podcasts, vodcasts
- New England Journal of Medicine
- MEDLINE/PubMed indexing
- Trend is toward integration; mash ups
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 14. Post-textual web
- Podcasts, vodcasts
- New England Journal of Medicine
- MEDLINE/PubMed indexing
- Trend is toward integration; mash ups
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 15. Virtual, social reality
- Immersive, gamingenvironments
- Tools forfacilitatedconversation?
- MMORPGs
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- Role-playing games,Second Life
- Simulated medical services
- Medical librarians 2.0 avatars
Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 Second Life secondlife.com Goodwillstaceymedical librarian in Second Life 16. In summary: Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007 Open access, data liberation Proprietary,closedaccess Integrated, virtual, mashed Disparate pieces Social taggingie.Connotea, del.icio.us Medical directories, bookmarks, favorite sitesBlog posts, RSS readers E-mail alerts, listservs Syndication, RSS push Information comes to you Sticky sites Pull information Theopenweb as platformStandalone, firewallsParticipative, non-hierarchicalwisdom of crowds Static websites; hierarchies Social search ie. Google health Yahoo, Google, MSN Web 2.0 Web 1.0 17. A new medical journal Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007
- Open Medicine
- www.openmedicine.ca
- *a new peer-reviewed, independent,open-access journal
- launch is imminent (next few weeks)
- physician-created, many former CMAJ editors
- editorial independence, scientific integrity ascore values
- Open Medicine blog
18. In conclusion Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini April 2007
- Physicians should learn about the vast ecosystem of the web
- Web 2.0is not a fad, but is changing the way patients and physicians interact
- Wikis and blogs help doctors to communicate, collaborate and participatemore
- Software tools help physicians to formdigitalcommunities of practice
- In the future, physicians will publish in the absence of associations or affiliations.