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 »
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Virtual Student Symposium in e-Health and Health Informatics
A few days ago I decided to participate in JMIR WIKI (another great initiative from the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation). I was a little embarrased about that because I know the importance of this forum, but anyway the Internet allows us to do this kind of things and I think we should take advantage… Read more »
ICTconsequences Wiki
Finally I have decided to star ICTconsequeces Wiki. I will use it as a personal notebook to share the comments about resources I am working with and it also helps me to order my personal notes. Again it is just a working web project so I hope I will improve its integration with the rest… Read more »
Who is empowered in e-health?
‘Jakob Nielsen’s Digital Divide: The Three Stages’ posted by Ismael Peña talking about Empowerment Divide and a conversation with him make me think about empowerment in health and the consequences of Internet in this topic. Roma Harris and Tiffany Veinot wrote The Empowerment Model and Using E-Health to Distribute Information. In this working paper they… 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 »
The 2007 Digital Future Report
The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has presented the results of the fifth year project: The 2007 Digital Future Report. I have read the highlights of the report (the full report is available for purchase) and obviously they have consequences on the health field as far as they talk about:… Read more »
My Works
In this page I am going to collect and share some of the works I have been doing along or with fellows. Research projects Publications During 2005 – 2007 I was working in the Project Internet Catalonia “Technological Modernisation, Organisational Change and Service Delivery in the Catalan Public Health” directed by the Prof. Manuel Castells…. Read more »
ICTconsequences Bibliography
Like most of the researchers I have to manage references and bibliography. Since I started the Phd courses I had tried some of the software available. During the last year I also have tried Refbase, Bibciter and other open source tools. The result is ICTconsequences Bibliography and the aim is to arrange and share the… Read more »
New Web-based tools, health education and health communication
It looks like the Web 2.0 has arrived to the field of health education as far as we can find articles talking about it. I have read Boulos, M., et al. (2006). “Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education.” BMC Medical Education 6(41): 8 [link]… Read more »