Viktoriya Semenova

1. HIMA 5060 Health Informatics
Final Project Paper
Viktoriya Semenova

2. This paper aims to explore:
 The history of emerging Health 2.0 or
Medicine 2.0
 Benefits
 Challenges
in application of the internet-based tools
such search, blogs, podcasts, tagging,
wikis, and networks in the health care and
health education

3.  The term Medicine 2.0 was officially defined in 2004
on an international conference on Web 2.0
applications in health and medicine
 Medicine 2.0/Health 2.0 is an extensive internet-
sharing of health and medical information among
health professionals, patients, caregivers, and
businesses entities, such as pharmaceutical research
and developing companies, manufactures, and
health insurance organizations

4. Medicine
2.0/Health 2.0
Medicine 2.0
refers to the Health 2.0 focuses on
science of the business of health
medicine and - the delivery, the
the practice of quality, the safety
treating or and the cost or
curing patients efficiency of the
people, a practice or
facility

5. Gunther Eysenbach (2008) further elaborates
definition of Medicine 2.0 and Health 2.0 such as
Medicine 2.0 is a wider concept and includes
applications that enable health professionals and
biomedical scientists to stay informed of the
current knowledge and to improve the quality of
the scientific output. Consumers/patients,
health professionals, and biomedical researchers
are the three main user groups of current
Medicine 2.0 applications; they are embodied as
a triangle:

7. Medicine 2.0/Health 2.0 applications on health
care:
 facilitate effective information sharing;
 these technologies are convenient, fast and
have low cost.
 simplify access to
up-to-date clinical
information, patient
records, and practice
resource utilization
data
 contribute to the delivery of a higher level of
customer service for a greater number of
patients and better health outcomes

8. Medical professionals and public are using Web
for:
 health related information
 medical education
 disease management
 attainment and distribution data for
research
 collaboration and practice of health
professionals

9. Web net gears provide new technology and new services for
healthcare professionals and patients to enable and
facilitate specifically social networking, participation,
apomediation, collaboration, and openness within and
between these user groups

10.  Practitioner location-independence is transforming
healthcare delivery because internet removes
geographical restrictions, allowing patients and
healthcare institutions have access to qualified
physicians
 Medicine 2.0/Health 2.0 increase efficiencies related to
administrative tasks, allowing for more interaction with
and transfer of information to patients, caregivers, and
clinical care coordinators, and monitoring of patient
care
 Telemedicine enhances senior wellness and preventive
care by implementing lifesaving and life enhancing
services like in-home monitoring

11.  loss of control over health related information,
 the safety issues of inaccurate information,
 ownership and privacy issues
 limitations of Google as a diagnostic tool
 patients delay seeking medical advice

12.  Emerging Health 2.0 or Medicine 2.0 brings both
benefits and challenges in application of the
internet-based tools in the health care and
health education.
 Considerable Internet-sharing of health and
medical information has empowered health
professionals, patients, caregivers, and
businesses entities by available information and
software gears.
 Powerful communication tools such as blogs,
podcasts, tagging, wikis, and networks brought
together health care professionals and patients
into an effective partnership reshaping the
health system