We have only touched the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the benefits of web 2.0 technologies on our lives, in particularly the way we approach our healthcare. There are a number of web 2.0 healthcare sites available; however the widespread adoption of industry parishioners and consumers is still an overstatement. Below is a short clips taken at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last month. Daniel Kraft, researcher and M.D. at Stanford, discusses using web 2.0 technologies in the healthcare industry and how he envisions it evolving. Do you have a favorite healthcare site? Tell us about it in the comment section 
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Healthcare 2.0
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Lord help us all, Healthcare 2.0″”. HIPPA is a total joke and waste of taxpayer money and effort — I worked for a county government and saw first hand the incompetent implementation of the HIPPA so-called safeguards as far as patient privacy and confidentiality. The most horrifying thing about this vid is the naivete in the belief that any medical information we, as health consumers, wish to “”share”" online with our providers is in the least bit protected. We had a saying in the olden days when online access was rearing its ugly head — the only safe computer is one that’s turned off. Under no circumstance would I ever enter medical information, voluntarily, about me, to be viewed online by anyone. That won’t prevent clinics, hospitals and insurance companies from doing so, but I don’t plan to volunteer anything that goes online. You think any web site, any online DB is safe? Check out attrition.org (mostly out of date but you get the idea) and datalossdb.org. This is what is called “”the law of unintended consequences,”" that is, Web 2.0. It’s an ugly online world and I’m ashamed to have spent almost 40 years in the IT/IS business.”
Great. Cisco just mailed my Health Renewal papers to the wrong address. When I call I find out that there is no way to talk to HRC because the internal phone system is screwed up. I stand to lose all the benefits I have had for 20 years because Cisco mailed stuff to the worng address and their cinternal communications don’t work.Brillianr.Michael B Walter
Health 2.0 is not about HIPPA or sharing customer medical records online. It is about the abiliity for consumers to openly discuss medical care, rate doctors and hospitals, and share their experiences. Beyond the basics of blogs and wikis is a second generation of web 2.0 software for healthcare that will improve internal clinical information sharing. Companies like Jumper (www.jumpernetworks.com) and Xoova (www.xoova.com) promise to transform the way doctors exchange ideas about treatment, search case histories, and exchange knowledge in translational research all of which will make for better healthcare for all of us!
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Excellent post. I worked for a county government and saw first hand the incompetent implementation of the HIPPA so-called safeguards as far as patient privacy and confidentiality.
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