Ismael Peña has sent me this headline WHO adopts Wikipedia approach for key update from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. As the notice said WHO is embarking on one of its periodic updates of a system of medical coding called the International Classification of Diseases and it wants the world’s help doing it. The new, more open… Read more »
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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 »
The End of the Golden Age of Doctoring and eHealth
McKinlay and Marceau wrote The end of the golden age of doctoring. In this article the authors discussed eight interrelated reasons for the decline of the golden age of doctoring: Major extrinsicfactors (generally outside the control of the profession) include: (1) the changing nature of the state and loss of its partisan support for doctoring,… Read more »
Wiki about Access, Use and Consequences of ICT in eHealth and Network Society
During this month I have been working on my wiki site. I have organized the items by these categories: Articles Books Institutions People Research Centers Surveys and Indicators As I have said in another post this space is just a personal notebook. But of course comments will be welcome. I will appreciate them. You can… Read more »
Politics of search engine and eHealth
John Sharp has written about the Official Google Blog talking about Getting the Best Care. I have posted about the politics implications of search engines and health information seekers thinking about if “Should we consider ways of addressing the politics of Health Information on the Net as far as Health market mechanism does not work… Read more »
Hospitals on the Net?
A few years ago Porter wrote “Strategy and Internet”. The idea in practice was that “Internet powerfully influences industry structure and sustainable competitive advantage”. In the countries where the healthcare system is not “marked-oriented” the presence of the Hospital on the Net doesn’t matter. There is lack of interest. This is the first barrier. Randeree… Read more »
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 »