Monthly Archives: March 2007

Web 2.0: A research point of view

I have posted about Web 2.0 a few times talking about some consequences of this topic in the Health field. I usually take the Web 2.0 definition from O’Reilly, but this time I would like to tackle the topic following the empirical research from PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT. In Riding the Waves of… Read more »

References about Access, Use and Consequences of ICT in Health/eHealth and Network Society

Since I have begun to use ICTconsequences Bibliography I have collected 161 references and I`m sure that I will increase this number. Anyway if you are interested in search the database I recommend you to search the literature database by: Simple Search – search the main fields of the database Advanced Search – search all… Read more »

ICT and e-Business in Hospital Activities

eHealthNews EU has announced ICT and e-Business in Hospital Activities – ICT adoption and e-business activity in 2006: This document is a sector study by e-Business W@tch, focusing on Hospital Activities (see section 2 for an introduction to this sector). It describes how hospitals use information and communication technologies (ICT) for conducting business, assesses the… Read more »

Patient Opinion

I think Patient Opinion is a great example of a Web 2.0 and a business model on the Web at the healtcare sector. Patient Opinion is all about enabling patients to share their experiences of health care, and by doing so help other patients — and perhaps even change the NHS. As well as allowing… Read more »