Cameron Neylon has posted Facebooks for scientists – they’re breeding like rabbits!. I really recommend reading that post. I just reproduce here some of the sites collected by him: Sites Blog collections: Nature Network, ScienceBlogs, Scientific Blogging, WordPress, Blogspot, (OpenWetWare), Social Networks: Laboratree, Ologeez, Research Gate, Epernicus, LabMeeting, Graduate Junction, (Nature Network), oh and Facebook,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Web 2.0
Working on empirical evidence of Health 2.0
Lately I have quit blogging (not smoking, what a shame!) because I have focused exclusively on my thesis. On 1st September I must finish the first drat to present it to my thesis advisor. I’m working hard (factorial analysis, cluster analysis and Logit model) with data bases from E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of… Read more »
Medical consultation 2.0
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 »
Participative Web and User-Created Content. WEB 2.0, WIKIS AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
Little by little Web 2.0 movement is being approached by theory and empirical data. As an example of empirical data approachs, OECD has launched Participative Web and User-Created Content. Web 2.0, wikis and social networking The concept of the “participative web” is based on an Internet increasingly influenced by intelligent web services that empower users… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Rating Physicians and Hospitals and Web 2.0: Could it really change health demand?
Checking my RSS I have found a interesting post titled Health Care’s Broke: Physician Rating and Quality Indicators where the author mentions some physicians’ and hospitals’ opinions about Web 2.0 rating tools: You’re only going to get the extreme patients to evaluate you (and often the unhappy ones) The unhappy patients will have the opportunity… Read more »
What do we really know about Web 2.0?
Do you remember the Time Person of the year 2006? We are almost ready for 2008 and little by little we know something more about IT: about this catch-all buzzword -Web 2.0- that people use to describe a wide range of online activities and applications; about how many people are avid participants in all that… Read more »