Web2.0 and Healthcare : Avoiding Hype, Reaping Benefits

Dee wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
This is the title of a  presentation I am giving at the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) on 22nd November. This is  the abstract I submitted :
 
A significant change has occurred over that last number of years in the way that most people use the Internet. This new internet coined Web 2.0 - a broad term used to describe the tools, technologies and motivation for the creation and consumption of online content  - continues to evolve.
The key concepts at the heart of this evolution have been tools and online services that enable people to create web based content, use web based services and interact with others through social networks.
What can this evolution offer to healthcare workers, practitioners and the patient? Can the technologies and concepts that have found favour with online consumers really benefit the health sector – or is the hype just too much?
What would be really great is if people could contribute some thoughts on this to the comments or via email. Knowing me and my past record for presentations - there could be a last minute frenzy of activity to pull this one together. Thinking about it this morning though - I am proably aligning myself around the use of Web20 tools in the enterprise.
 
I also hope to hear some war stories relating to Enterprise2.0 at the Web2Expo Conference in Berlin over the next few days - typing this at Dublin Airport.

Read the rest of this great post here

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