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

When you feel you have THE money shot………

I took this photo on Friday 17/09/2010.  As you may have gathered I love taking photos of iconic views around Hobart. Although a little history couldn’t go astray so…: Tasman Bridge: construction first began in May 1960 and was first completed on December 23rd 1964. Its width is 17.5 meters (from rail to rail), stands 60.5 meters high at it’s apex and is 1,395 meters long. The A3 Tasman Highway runs across it. Disaster, January 5th, 1975. An almighty bang! I actually woke up to this as I was living in Lindisfarne at the time, at approximately 9.27pm the bridge was struck by a bulk ore carrier, The Illawarra, coming up the Derwent to the local Zinc works carrying a load of around 10,000 tons of zinc concentrate. The ship hit the two central pylons collapsing them and causing the 3 main concrete decking sections to fall onto the bridge causing it to sink, lives were lost, both on board the ship and cars that were crossing the bridge at that time. The ship is still there today, the bridge has actually been rebuilt over the top of the carrier and if you venture to Hobart I suggest that you visit our museum as they have a model of the ship with the bridge construction over it.

Lindisfarne bay, I grew up around this area

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_Bridge