Health 2.0

Health 2.0 is the term used to describe the next generation health movement in which patients are active, empowered managers of their own health. The term originated as a derivation of Web 2.0, with a strict definition related to user-generated health information. Today the term more broadly represents innovative approaches to healthcare which are patient-centered, social media or community-driven, and leverage digital technologies.

There is some debate over the future of the Health 2.0 movement. In 2008, for the first time, more U.S. adults used the Internet than doctors to obtain health and medical information, yet few Health 2.0 companies have been able to monetize their business successfully.  The increase in information seekers on the web has led to growth of blog sites and articles about a variety health-related topics.  Some bloggers give health advice while others warn about misinformation.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Health 2.0”

• PeRSSonalized Pediatrics: Selected News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  PeRSSonalized Medicine is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place. Now here is the newest category, PeRSSonalized Pediatrics with ...
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• Health 2.0 News: 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  The increasing use of social media to recruit patients for clinical trials (Pharma Strategy Blog): There are more and more news ways for patients to find ongoing clinical trials and also for pharma companies to find interested patients. ResearchGATE and Its Savvy Use of the Web (BusinessWeek): The world’s ...
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• Best Virtual World Ever: Innovation in Organizing Meetings

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  I’ve been organizing scientific events and medical conferences in the virtual realm of Second Life for years. Though it has some serious limitations. If you don’t have IT experience, it will be quite hard to download and install it. Costs a lot if you want to upload content. Creating slideshows is a ...
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• Dad Delivers Baby With Help From Google

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  It was the strangest headline this week . Let’s see a case study focusing on how to promote a device carefully and how to deliver false message about the use of online health information. When Leroy Smith’s pregnant wife started going into labor, the desperate dad didn’t turn to the doctors, but to Google . ...
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• Interview about PeRSSonalized Medicine

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  I gave an interview to one of the biggest Hungarian educational web portals, Felvi.hu about Webicina.com and Health 2.0. An excerpt: Webicina.com is a freely accessible resource base for those who wish to read useful medical web pages, but cannot decide which ones are reliable and which ones are not. ...
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• Doing better with Depression

  
  Teen Mental Health Blog — Authority: 103
  It’s hardly a day goes by that we don’t read about depression and its impact on people and the economy and the toll it takes with suicide. We also read about how wonderful treatments are and how it is important to get help as soon as possible. All the above is true and for sure if I, or one of my loved ones, or ...
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• Non Invasive Health Monitoring with Mobile Health: Slideshow

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  Bart Collet , author of Zorgbeheer, published an interesting slideshow about non invasive health monitoring systems:
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• PeRSSonalized Pharma and Pharma Companies: Selected News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  This week, we launched a new section of PeRSSonalized Medicine , an easy-to-use free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place, every day and I thought we ...
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• Today’s Health Content Headlines

  
  Health Content Advisors — Authority: 114
  Please scroll down if the story you are looking for is not the first headline.  New stories are added throughout the day and I may have provided a link to the most current story that is now lower down on the page.  Follow me on Twitter @janicemccallum.
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• PeRSSonalized Dermatology: Quality News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or ...
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• PeRSSonalized Medicine: Quality Psoriasis News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or ...
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• How To Use Our Patient Enquiry Management Tool

  
  RevaHealth.com Blog — Authority: 112
  When you login to Revahealth.com, the page you land on is your Patient Enquiries page. On this page, you can view and manage enquiries from people who are interested in treatment at your clinic. You can also reach this page after you are logged in, by clicking on the “Patient Enquiries” tab in your control panel. ...
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• MedEncentives Five Year Report

  
  The Health Care Blog — Authority: 564
  By Matthew Holt As many involved in the worlds of Health 2.0 and Information Therapy know, some of the most interesting experiments in the world of patient-physician engagement have been happening in the somewhat unlikely environs of small town Oklahoma....
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• Medicine and Web 2.0 University Course: End of 3rd Semester

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  I’m really proud that I can organize and run the world’s first university credit course focusing on Web 2.0 and medicine at a medical school. This was the third, and so far most successful, semester with 115 students who filled a survey before and after the course. I hope I can publish the results in a ...
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• Health 2.0 in Europe: Couldn’t? Wouldn’t? Does!

  
  PublicHealthBugle.com — Authority: 122
  Original Post (source: The Health Care Blog) They said it couldn’t happen in Europe, that social media and online tools wouldn’t catch on, because the healthcare context was soooo different from the US. They said that Europeans don’t worry about access and cost, that they aren’t looking for information ...
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• PeRSSonalized Medicine: Quality Stroke News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 533
  I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or ...
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• Patients, Physicians and Online Communities

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “The internet has shortened distance between the patients and physicians. Further, both the patients and physicians are able to communicate with their respective communities in a broader fashion. Applications such as the Health 2.0 have opened up a virtual interactive world that goes beyond boundaries of caste, ...
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• Health 2.0 in Europe: Couldnt? Wouldnt? Does!

  
  The Health Care Blog — Authority: 564
  By Denise Silber They said it couldn’t happen in Europe, that social media and online tools wouldn’t catch on, because the healthcare context was soooo different from the US. They said that Europeans don’t worry about access and cost, that...
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• Measure Your Health, Take our eHRA

  
  HealthcareMagic Blog — Authority: 114
  We have recently launched Health Risk Assessment on HealthcareMagic. By taking our Health Risk Assessment you can measure your health, fitness, mental health, sexual health and find out where you stand. The Health Risk Assessment Tool is designed intelligently to ask you basic & detailed questions about your ...
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• Last Day to Share Your (Pre-)Holiday Stories

  
  DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog — Authority: 492
  I realize that we haven’t hit Christmas yet this year. And Hanukkah begins tonight at sundown — so maybe you haven’t yet experienced your Best or Worst of the Holidays with Diabetes for this year. But we’re asking anyway: share a story for a chance to win!The DiabetesMine ‘Tis the Season! Survival ...
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