As a result of Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age Conference: from empirical data to Web 2.0 trends, three videos and two power point presentations are available. Furthermore, the conference’s speaker and I had a interesting conversation with Salvador Tordera, a journalist from Open University of Catalonia. A few days ago, Salvador has… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Hospitals
Health Literacy Conference by Rima Rudd
Today I have attended to Catalonia Health Promoting Hospitals Network kick off meeting. This Network, coordinated by Cristina Iniesta, has organised a conference about Health Literacy with Rima Rudd as key speaker. Rima Rudd conference was marvellous. Here comes my notes from the conference: She started talking about income and education as the fundamental axis… Read more »
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 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 »
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 »
E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia at eHealth News EU
I would like to thank indeed Ruslan David, eHealthNews.EU Portal Administrator/Editor, for his help to disseminate the results of the research project E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia and also for his wonderful job as Editor of eHealthNews.EU – the First European eHealth News Portal.