Posts Categorized: Health

Catalonia Health Promoting Hospitals Network- Health Literacy

On Friday, June 13th, 2008, Catalonia Health Promoting Hospitals Network will be presented at CosmoCaixa. The Network has organised a very interesting meeting titled Health Literacy with Rima Rudd (Senior Lecturer on Society, Human Development, and Health at Harvard School of Public Health) as a key speaker. Rima Rudd is a health educator whose work… Read more »

International Seminar: New technology applications to prevention and assistance of addictions

I have been invited by Government of La Rioja, through the Regional Ministry of Health, to participate in the International Seminar “Aplicación de las nuevas tecnologías a la prevención y asistencia en adicciones (“New technologies applications to prevention and assistance of addictions” (26th and 27th, June) located at CIBIR, the Biomedical Research Centre of La… Read more »

Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age videos available at YouTube

I’m glad to announce that Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age videos are available at YouTube. Health in the Information Age by Rita Espanha Health and Web 2.0 by Michael Hardey Health and Web 2.0: initiatives from Catalonia Government by Joan Guanyabens Enjoy them! Thanks again to those who made this conference possible…. Read more »

Health Commons from Science Commons

Ismael Peña, a colleague at Open University of Catalonia and a friend of mine, has been working on issues relative with Open Access, Open Science, Open Educational Resources, Open Source Software, etc. His post titled Introduction to the open paradigm sum up the main features of Open movement. Talking about “paradigm” is a tricky question… Read more »

Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age Conference: from empirical data to Web 2.0 trends

First of all I would like to thank Gustavo Cardoso, Miquel Angel Mayer and indeed Rita Espanha and Michael Hardey for the marvellous working days we had in Barcelona. It was a honour to have the opportunity to share during three days thoughts, reflections, past researches and ideas about health and the Internet. I’m sure… Read more »

Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age Conference

I’m pleasure to announce “Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age Conference” on 15th May at Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. The speakers are: Prof. Rita Esphana (CIES-ISCTE – OberCom, Portugal) – “Health in the Information Age” Prof. Michael Hardey (Hull/York Medical School – SIRU, UK) – “Health and Web 2.0” The conference is sponsored… Read more »

Internet, Health and Society. Implications for health promotion in Catalonia

Yesterday, I was invited by Cristina Iniesta, Hospital del Mar Manager Director and Health Promoting Hospital Network Coordinator, to present the results from Internet, Health and Society in Catalonia in one of the network meetings at Hospital Sant Joan de Deu. The aims of the presentation were: (1) to analyse in what way and to… Read more »

Health in the Information Age – A Saúde na Era da Informaçao

On 23th and 24th of April I was at Lisbon invited by Gustavo Cardoso and Rita Espanha to the presentation of the research project Health in the Information Age supported by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Brief description: The first objective of the study is to analyse in what way and in what measure the ICT’s, especially… Read more »

Prof. Dr. Reinhold Haux papers: A decade of ICT development in health care

Lately I’ve been reading some papers from Prof. Dr. Reinhold Haux. I’m really impressed with his career. In 1996 he published with other colleagues A systematic view on medical informatics: Medical informatics is defined as the scientific discipline concerned with the systematic processing of data, information and knowledge in medicine and health care. The domain… Read more »

Medical wikis: a easy way for physicians to be on the Internet

Following David Rothman’s initiative I started to collect wikis focus on health. I have added to the list Wikiecho launched by Dr. S. Sulfi Wikiecho is a project to create a free, up-to-date and reliable online resource covering the rapidly advancing field of echocardiography . Check out the Help page to see how you can… Read more »