IT community. As Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Dr. Casscells transformed www.health.mil, the Web site of the Military Health System (MHS), into an awarding-winning Web 2.0 environment, incorporating the use of blogs, video, RSS feeds and social media platforms ... to enable peer-to-peer communication.
Read on at: http://www.fedhealthinst.org/newsletter.html
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kr and Twitter, according to several media reports today.
The order issued by the 93rd and 106th Signal Brigades, permits access to five social media sites within the continental U.S ... Facebook: Delicious, Flickr, Twitter and Vimeo via the Unclassified but Sensitive Internet Protocol Router Network...The order also instructs network managers to block several Web sites including: Photobucket, MySpace and Live365.
Read on at: http://gcn.com/articles/2009/06/11/army-social-media.aspx?s=gcndaily_150609
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lished with the administration's 2010 budget request.
White House officials want agencies to launch pilot projects that identify common services & solutions, and that focus on cloud computing and "utilization of social
and visual technologies, such as Web 2.0 tools", according to the “ Analytical Perspectives ” document released with the budget request.
Cloud computing refers to an arrangement in which an organization pays a service provider to deliver applications, computing power and storage via the Web ...The document goes on to state that Web 2.0 technologies should be employed because "Existing Government websites need to be revitalized with community-driven features and functionality"....
Cloud computing pilot projects should address the risks and new policies required to implement the emerging technology, the document states, such as...
— End-user communications and computing—secure
provisioning, support (help desk), and operation
of end-user applications across a spectrum of
devices;addressing telework and a mobile workforce.
— Secure virtualized data centers, with Government to-
Government, Government-to-Contractor, and
Contractor-to-Contractor modes of service delivery.
— Portals, collaboration and messaging—secure data
dissemination, citizen and other stakeholder engagement,
and workforce productivity.
— Content, information, and records management—
delivery of services to citizens and workforce
productivity.
— Workflow and case management—delivery of services
to citizens and workforce productivity.
— Data analytics, visualization, and reporting—
transparency and management.
— Enterprise Software-as-a-Service—for example, in
financial management.
Download the White House, Office of Management & Budget, "Analytical Perspectives" at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2010/assets/crosscutting.pdf
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ractive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.[1]
Here is Clay speaking about Health 2.0, the coming patient empowerment, crowdsourcing, and changes we should anticipate in healthcare.
He has written and been interviewed extensively about the Internet since 1996. His columns and writings have appeared in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired.
Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client-server infrastructure that characterizes the World Wide Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the U.S. Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation and the BBC.…
As reported in HealthCare IT News... Social networking tools are becoming more popular in medical and nursing school curricula, according to a new study published in the…
r visits via Webcam...
... Another example is Keas ... helps patients by providing personalized reminders, advice and wellness plans based on their health information.
At the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, a few other start-ups talked about what they are doing to improve the ways in which doctors and patients interact.
... One is called Hello Health. Primary care practices use this service to communicate with patients, and the company says it can cut overhead costs in half by decreasing the need for receptionists and nurses. It enables patients to use instant messaging tools to talk with their doctors. The conversations are stored in the patient’s file, and the doctor can charge the patient on the spot and provide a receipt for the insurance filing...
... Another is VisionTree. It aims to replace paper in a lot of the doctor-patient interactions that one would think would have been digitized a long time ago. For example, patients fill out their medical histories online instead of on a clipboard and can use the service to request prescription refills or make appointments over the Web...
... ReachMyDoctor gathers a patient’s health history in one place so the doctor and patient can quickly see which procedures or screenings the patient needs. It also enables several doctors who care for a patient to communicate about that patient in a group chat...
... RelayHealth also enables doctors and patients to communicate online. It lets both doctors and patients enter health information, like vaccinations or allergies, and enables doctors to write electronic prescriptions and share information with other doctors...
Read on at: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/start-ups-aim-to-transform-visits-to-the-doctor/?dbk
For more on the rapidly growing market sector of Web 2.0 and healthcare see MedTech-IQ search link: http://medtechiq.ning.com/main/search/search?q=web+2.0
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ppeared on the Internet; these include Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, del.icio.us, and, of course, MedTech-IQ! Organizations are in the early stages of incorporating these tools into their work, a phenomenon coined by the author as "Enterprise 2.0." In this talk McAfee gives examples of Enterprise 2.0, folding them into a simple model intended to communicate the different categories of benefits conferred.
About Andrew
Andrew McAfee joined the faculty of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School in 1998. His research investigates how managers can most effectively select, implement, and use Information Technology (IT) to achieve business goals.
His current research falls into two categories. The first is an exploration of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used within the enterprise, and what their impact is likely to be. The second is a study of IT's impact over time on the structure of US industries and the nature of competition within them.…
I had occasion this week to write the specification for two website redesigns. And that has set me thinking about the new state of affairs within the wide range of marketing communications that…
ools provide support or reliable health information about diabetes, which patient communities to join and which quality blogs to read.
The table of contents:
News and Forums
Diabetes in the medical blogosphere
Blog Carnivals
Podcast
Community Sites and FaceBook Groups
Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed
Wikis
Videos, animations and videocasts
On Mobile
Second Life, the virtual world
Social Bookmarking
Medical Search Engines
We hope we can help patients and medical professionals how to use the web efficiently.
Next time, we will create an interactive tour around all the services for our users and we will also ask you to decide which medical condition to cover in the second package.
Please let us know if you have suggestions or questions.
Yours Sincerely,
Bertalan Mesko
Managing director and founder
Webicina LLC
info@webicina.com
http://www.webicina.com
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