Google Health Advertising Blog has posted Doctors and the Web 2.0 talking about White Paper “Physicians and Web 2.0” done by Manhattan Research: Manhattan Research is a healthcare market research and services firm, laying the foundation for strategic planning for global pharmaceutical, biotech, device and diagnostic, and life sciences companies. Manhattan Research guides clients in… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Network Society
The only Castells Summary of the project Internet Catalonia on the uses of the Internet
As well as the video there is an article titled The only Castells Summary of the project Internet Catalonia on the uses of the Internet
Prof. Castells is interviewed by Barcelona Medical Association
Barcelona Medical Association has published a very interesting video-interview with Prof. Castells talking about Network Society and Health. As well as the interview there is an article titled Physicians on the Internet written by Prof. Castells and myself. The video and the article are in Spanish. It could be a good chance to learn that… 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 »
Understanding ICT as Innovation in Healthcare Organizations
I have been studying some issues related with Innovation and with Telemedicine (if you follow the links you can see some references about them). In my case the key issue of both items is Information and Communication Technologies. To tackle the complex of these three concepts (Innovation, Telemedicine and ICT) I am following the Conceptual… 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 »
A typology of Information and Communication Technology Users by PEW INTERNET
On May 7 PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT publised “A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users“. Here is the Summary of Findings at a Glance: Omnivores: 8% of American adults constitute the most active participants in the information society,consuming information goods and services at a high rate and using them as a platform… Read more »
Web 2.0: a research point of view is launched
A few moths ago I posted about Web 2.0 and I concluded that further research is needed. It so happened that recently Prof. Dutton has announced the iCS Conference: Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 held by the journal Information Communication & Society (iCS). I propose to anyone who is interested in this topic… 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 »
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 »