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 »
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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 »
Pervasiveness of computing in healthcare
Heath et al. (2003) “discuss the ways in which Sociology of Health and Illness has provided a forum for the analysis of these new technologies in healthcare”. It’s a great article that allow us to review the literature about some topics related to healthcare and ICT.As well as recommend the reading of the article I… Read more »
Health care: Towards quality performance – OCDE
Improving health is a key concern of OECD societies, as it can contribute to higher economic growth and improved welfare. OCDE Observer The OECD Observer magazine presents concise, up-to-date and authoritative analysis of crucial world economic, social and environmental issues. Since 1962 it has been keeping policymakers, business people, NGOs, researchers and journalists ahead of… Read more »
Internet health information seekers and the Politics of search engine
Most of the Internet health informations seekers use search engines to find what they are looking for on the Web. See: Diaz, J. Griffith, R. et al. (2002). Patients’ Use of the Internet for Medical Information. J GEN INTERN MED 17:180-185 Fox, S. (2002). Vital decisions. [online article]. PEW Internet & American Life Project. [5/10/2006]…. Read more »