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June 16 (Tuesday) 1:30 pm SLT-2:15pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/ Virtual%20Ability/54/169/22/ Health Care New Media Marketing Conference: Connecting to Consumer's in Today's Healthcare Environment Second Life: The Key to Futuristic Communication and Patient Care Health Care Collaboration & Community in Virtual Worlds & Second Life Second only to the general concept of Web 2.0, virtual worlds are the source of more articles in PubMed than any other emerging social technology. Of the many virtual worlds, Second Life (a free, open source 3d virtual world platform) is the one with the strongest presence in health care communities, from patient groups and medical education to research and professional meetings. Second Life can enable health systems to create either public or secure private spaces for functions from patient education, outreach, staff training, remote meetings, or more. As with any social technology, understanding the context and norms of the online ...

Practicing Medicine in the Web 2.0 Era View more presentations from Bertalan Mesko . Tags: zorg20 , #zorg20 , medicine , health2.0 , healthcare , web2.0 Related articles by Zemanta All presentations of Zorg 2.0 (digicmb.blogspot.com) Screencasting and Podcasting: experiences of the Yale Medical Library (digicmb.blogspot.com) Welcome Video HealthInfo Island in Second Life (digicmb.blogspot.com) MEDNAR SEARCH: Innovative Medical Search (digicmb.blogspot.com)

Image by testdriverone via Flickr I had the honour to meet Bertalan Mesko this week at the Zorg 2.0 conference in Nijmegen. The 24-year old medical Hungarian student and internet entrepreneur with Webicina.com. The medical library world knows him as the person behind ScienceRoll , one of the most read medical blogs about web 2.0 and the mash-up with health care. He spoke about the use of communities for professionals in health care. With the use of Second Life as educational tool, the experience of two communities and how the training can be embedded. It is his aim to help medical professionals and patients enter the web 2.0 era by providing them with e-courses, consulting and personalized packages. First ones he launced are Diabetes and Depression . Berci is also responsible for the web 2.0 meta medical search engine you can see in the left menu of this blog. One the useful tools to help professionals to keep up to date is his PeRSSonalized Medical Search . It offers quick conv...

75% of all online adult get health Information from the Internet. Health questions drive internet users age 73 and older to the internet just as frequently as they drive Generation Y users, outpacing teens by a significant margin. Researching health information is the third most popular online activity with the most senior age group, after email and online search. Pew Research generations Online For many HealthCare professionals the possibilities of the Web are still hidden. The Zorg 2.0 Event wants to improve awareness, share information and learn healthcare professionals about the challenges the Internet has to offer. ( automatic translated english version ) New media such as weblogs, online communities, Twitter , podcasts , vodcasts, RSS feeds, can support professionals in the exchange of information but also in exchange of experiences, facilitate hospital admissions, etc. The internet can also be used as a 2-way communication between professionals and patients. The optimal ...

" The Acute Care Region East and the University Medical Centre UNC St Radboud are organising the first Care 2 . 0 Congress. It is to be a gathering with an interactive programme about the possibilities the Internet can hold for the care sector for and by healthcare professionals" They do a great job at the Acute Care Region East. It seems they willingly decided to take this path of Web 2.0 integration in all Health Care aspects and this event is focussing on it. Some info in English The Zorg 2 . 0 Congress will be held on March 2 4, 2 0 0 9. More info & registration: www.azo.nl/zorg 2 0 .htm (in Dutch) More background information about the acute care region Acute Zorgregio Oost at www.azo.nl Related articles by Zemanta National Dialogue on Health IT Publishes Final Report (Uses Scribd in True Web 2.0 Fabulous Fashion) (healthmgmtrx.blogspot.com) Health 3.0 - or: whatever happend to Health 2.0? (blogs.sun.com) Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival Edition #33 (ivor-k...