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Healthcare 2.0 coming to a website near you

April 4th, 2008

by Tony Chen

Sorry I've been MIA for a few weeks - the flu bug hit our family pretty good - from my wife to our tot to me - all in all, about 2-3 weeks. Anyway, I'm back with a few healthcare 2.0 tidbits:

- The first virtual hospital is up on SecondLife, where you can have a good experience delivering a baby. Funny, even in the virtual world, people talk about patient experience.

- More and more patient "support communities" are popping up on Second Life, including the "Heron Sanctuary" for folks with MS.

- Paul Levy, hospital CEO blogger extraordinairre, writes about his view on "friending" people and co-workers on facebook. As you might guess, Paul is all about open communication.

- Matthew Holt has a great post on what patients care about when it comes to physician ratings & info. Interesting development: Angie's list, the widely popular home repair services ratings website, is doing healthcare now, too (yeah, join the crowd). Another site Matthew points out that I wasn't aware of: TheHealthCareScoop, a social media / patient opinion site for plans/providers in MN.

Comments:

Comment from: Onehealthpro [Visitor] · http://www.Onehealthpro.typepad.com
I love the truth and web 2.0 makes it available to everyone.
Onehealthpro
Permalink 04/05/08 @ 16:39
Comment from: Lindsay [Visitor] · http://www.thespaceships.com
Hospital creation on SecondLife, rather expected phenomenon
Permalink 04/06/08 @ 06:44
Comment from: Ben [Visitor] · http://www.bizfunnel.com
Great article!

http://www.bizfunnel.com
Permalink 04/07/08 @ 00:17
Comment from: S Taylor [Visitor] · http://www.ibnetllc.com
Hello.

Integrating Web 2.0 software applications into hospitals and other medical care organizations and physicians' websites has the potential to create tremendous results, especially as it relates to marketing. Readily available is Open Source software that is FREE and freely customizable for any situation.

To see a 'Live' example of this software, visit BestWebEstate.com and follow the link to Best Web Estate Properties for Sale. There you will see a link that starts with "What is..." which will provide more information about the software. I found this software while surfing the Web and decided to keep the plug promoting its use.

That particular software is supported by a large worldwide community if you need help with installation and customization.

Hospitals and medical organizations should try to do more to interact with people internally and externally via the Internet / World Wide Web and some of their problems will directly or indirectly disappear. It may not seem like it yet, but if you know 'how' to use the Web more effectively, you will agree; then share your results with others.

Solutions in the medical industry are really at hand... Seek the 'how to' from those who have answers (like me).

HTH

(Also, reference my previous post on this blog at:
http://www.hospitalimpact.org/index.php/leadership/2005/08/02/tips_on_marketing_your_hospital#c18231)
Permalink 04/14/08 @ 12:31
Comment from: Robert [Visitor] · http://www.patient.com
The more health care information propagates, the more it becomes supremely important to properly manage the data in a way that improves the quality of care for the patient. There could be an opportunity for a service that can pull the data from all these services, and make it practically useful to a health care provider, especially in a critical care situation where the patient has no ability to communicate the existence of the data, and how to access it.
Permalink 04/15/08 @ 13:27
Comment from: ltr [Visitor] · http://www.lowtexasrates.com
There are probably some HIPAA laws that will get in the way here.
Permalink 04/20/08 @ 18:39
Comment from: Knut Holt [Visitor] · http://www.mydeltapi.com
The best information patient/customers can get, is informastion about performance of doctors and hospitals.

There shopuld be websites where users can freeely comment of the quality of hospitals and doctors.

Permalink 04/21/08 @ 03:33
Comment from: Auto Account Creator [Visitor] · http://aac.ebusinesswiz.com
My friend told me about how easy it is to automatically create email addresses. I thought he was kidding but I quickly found out that he wasn't kidding.
Permalink 04/29/08 @ 02:33
Comment from: Knut Holt [Visitor] · http://www.mydeltapi.com
If software is used to calculate medical doses, anetshesia doses and other medical decisions, it is very important that the way of calculation is totally transparent to the pycisian or nurse, and that medically responsible personal can modify the calculaqtion metod by registering parameters and formulas into the software.

It is also important that the standard calculation schemes delivered with the esoftware have been deliverd by medical experts on the area and has been peer rviewed before shipment with the software.
Permalink 07/01/08 @ 04:57

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