1. Physicians are increasingly using social media tools like blogs, wikis, podcasts and videos to communicate and share knowledge both formally and informally.
2. Examples of medical wikis that doctors contribute to and use include AskDrWiki.com and Ganfyd.org which provide peer-reviewed medical information.
3. Emerging technologies like virtual environments and games may also facilitate new ways of conversation and learning in medicine.
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How Web 2.0 Is Changing Medicine
1. How web 2.0 is changing medicine* Dean Giustini UBC Biomedical Branch Librarian Vancouver General Hospital April 12 th , 2007 *A presentation at the 2007 Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing seminar, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
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16. In summary: Web 2.0 & medicine, Giustini – April 2007 Open access, data liberation Proprietary, closed access Integrated, virtual, mashed Disparate pieces Social tagging ie. Connotea, del.icio.us Medical directories, bookmarks, favorite sites Blog posts, RSS readers E-mail alerts, listservs Syndication, RSS “push” Information comes to you Sticky sites “ Pull” information “ The open web as platform” Standalone, firewalls Participative, non-hierarchical “wisdom of crowds” Static websites; hierarchies Social search ie. Google health Yahoo, Google, MSN Web 2.0 Web 1.0
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Editor's Notes
Thank you for that introduction. It’s a great pleasure to be here in the capitol, and I look forward to hearing the papers presented today. My talk is entitled “How Web 2.0 is changing medicine” which is an update of an article I published in the Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal.