Many of you will have heard of Web 2.0, which refers to changing trends in the use of the Internet that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration. This trend has led to such innovations as social-networking sites (like Facebook), video sharing sites (like U-Tube), wikis and blogs.
Adaptation of Web 2.0 technologies in the area of Medicine are now emerging for consumers, health professionals and biomedical researchers. Google Health, which allows for Personally Controlled Health Records, is an obvious example of this. Gunther Eysenbach is the author of an editorial in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, entitled "Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness." If you're interested in where all this new technology is heading, it makes for intriguing reading.
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