Posts Categorized: Services

Google PHR blogosphere discussion

If you are interested in Google PHR you should read Vince Kuraitis post titled “Connecting the Dots…Google Health Promises to Create AND Dominate Next Generation PHRs” and the discussion it has been generated. Congratulations for such a wonderful post and comments. After the first reactions on Google’s announcement, it is nice to see some analytical… Read more »

Project Internet Catalonia: The use of internet and IT in the health sector

I am so happy to announce that during this week has been presented by its directors, Prof. Manuel Castells and Prof. Imma Tubella, to the media and Catalonia Society the main conclusions of Project Internet Catalonia (PIC) PIC is a research programme carried out from September 2001 to July 2007 by the UOC’s IN3. It… Read more »

The on-line and off-line consequences of blogging

I few days ago I found a post from Tobias Escher talking about Why should researchers blog?. His post was interesting but opposite to Ismael Peña hyphotesis so I just sent him the URL. Later Ismael put a comment to Tobias’s post and next Tobias answered him back. Finally both will meet each other in… Read more »

Deal with Google in Healthcare Systems

I am glad to notice that many bloggers have started talking about the implications of Google in healthcare. David Rothman has post about Google vs. PubMed linking with another interesting blog called Open Medicine Blog. Those kind of posts support the hyphothesis about the social, economics and political implications of search engines as technological artefacs…. Read more »

Web 2.0 in Healthcare Care by John Sharp

John Sharp has shared his presentation at the conference of Northern Ohio Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society in Cleveland about Web 2.0 in Healthcare. First of all thanks to John for sharing his wonderful slides. I think these slides provide us a very useful collection of definitions and tools of Web 2.0 in healthcare… Read more »

Putting health into the patient's hands or into the markets' hand?

Adam Bosworth has posted about his speech at the 2007 American Medical Association of Informatics (AMIA) Spring Congress talking about Putting health into the patient’s hands. I do not have any doubt about Google’s capacity to innovate in healthcare field. But probably because in most countries in Europe we have a welfare state model who… Read more »

Infodemiology: a key issue for Web 2.0 in Health

In 2002 Gunter Eysenbach wrote “Infodemiology: The Epidemiology of (Mis)information” describing the emergence of a new research discipline and methodology focus on the study of the determinants and distribution of health information and misinformation. As the author said Information epidemiology, or infodemiology, identifies areas where there is a knowledge translation gap between best evidence (what… Read more »

The Internet and Health Communication. Experiences and Expectations

The Internet and Health Communication. Experiences and Expectations edited by Ronald E. Rice and James E. Katz provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in human communication and health care resulting from the Internet revolution.Even though the dynamics of change of Internet technologies, the framework proposed by Rice still helps us to understand the intersection… Read more »