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Editorial
. 2008 Aug 25;10(3):e22.
doi: 10.2196/jmir.1030.

Medicine 2.0: social networking, collaboration, participation, apomediation, and openness

Gunther Eysenbach
Editorial

Medicine 2.0: social networking, collaboration, participation, apomediation, and openness

Gunther Eysenbach. J Med Internet Res. .

Abstract

In a very significant development for eHealth, broad adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and approaches coincides with the more recent emergence of Personal Health Application Platforms and Personally Controlled Health Records such as Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault, and Dossia. "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. The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) publishes a Medicine 2.0 theme issue and sponsors a conference on "How Social Networking and Web 2.0 changes Health, Health Care, Medicine and Biomedical Research", to stimulate and encourage research in these five areas.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author is editor and publisher of JMIR, organizer of the Medicine 2.0 conference series, and is involved in several commercial and non-commercial projects which can be called Web 2.0 or Web 3.0 applications. He is also owner of the Medicine 2.0® Congress trademark.

Note: An early draft of this article was published as a blog entry [5].

Figures

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Figure 1
Medicine 2.0 Map (with some current exemplary applications and services)
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Figure 2
PHR 2.0: Conceptual model of a second generation of personal health records, which not only allows patients to access their electronic health record, but to share parts of it with other people, building communities around certain health topics and issues.
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Figure 3
Apomediation in the health care field from the perspective of a patient.
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Figure 4
Dynamic Intermediation-Disintermiation-Apomediation model (DIDA) [16].
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Figure 5
Medicine 2.0 Proceedings: Cover page
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