Net 102 Week 3 Topic 1.4 Health: What my doctor didn’t tell me Reading Review

Net 102 Week 3 Topic 1.4 Health: What my doctor didn't tell me. Reading Review

 Gunther Eysenbach. (2008, August 25). Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 10(3). (Archived by Web Cite)

This is partly a projection, partly a description of the author's observations regarding the development of 'Medicine 2.0'. What would such trends imply in terms of community, power, economy and identity?Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness
This particular article discusses how Web 2.0 is being increasingly utilised by not only medical practitioners but also by the consumer (the people requiring medical advice) to access personal health records via different medical platforms and importantly combined with social networking sites has created a centralisation for a complex network of systems e.g. Facebook (Eysenbach calls it Healthbook). Eysenbach also broaches that now that a great deal of personal information is accessed via web based medical platforms there is the question of privacy as "web information is permanently archived and may be accessible long-term (e.g. future employers)". (Gunther Eysenbach, 2008)  "Medicine 2.0" applications, services, and tools are defined as Web-based services for health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers, that use Web 2.0 technologies and/or semantic web and virtual reality approaches to enable and facilitate specifically 1) social networking, 2) participation, 3) apomediation, 4) openness, and 5) collaboration, within and between these user groups." (Gunther Eysenbach, 2008)

 My thoughts
I found the article interesting albeit hard to read. I have worked with an internet based medical platform before when I enjoyed work placement for Diabetes Tasmania, there is a strict code of conduct as to accessing people's files and maintaining privacy. It is a sackable offence disclosing private information to others. It was interesting to learn that social networking is being utilised as not only a research tool but also with aide to diagnosis.

 Reference

Gunther Eysenbach. (2008, August 25). Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 10(3). (Archived by Web Cite) Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH