This link has been bookmarked by 11 people . It was first bookmarked on 14 Sep 2007, by lexlaba71.
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Takuya Hommaprivacy and misinformation are the biggest issues to be solved before health2.0 going mainstream. the latter is okay because with enough people online, misinformation can easily and immediately corrected. the former is difficult to solve but will be someday.
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Millions are now logging on to contribute information about topics stretching from avian-flu pandemics to the extraction of wisdom teeth or the use of acupuncture to overcome infertility. You could call it user-generated health care, or Health 2.0.
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The firm's founders had discovered that there already was quite enough user-generated health information online; the real problem was finding the good stuff.
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today's body of medical knowledge is too vast for any one doctor to know it all
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People do not seem to realise how permanent information can be online
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Misinformation is another worry.
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user-generated information offers consumers more health options, the upside outweighs the risk,
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with enough people online, misinformation is often quickly corrected.
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Given the potential benefits, the risk of giving up some privacy seems insignificant
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he thinks the combined knowledge of a crowd of his patients would be far greater than his own
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16 Sep 07
Constantin BastureaTechnology and society: Is the outbreak of cancer videos, bulimia blogs and other forms of “user generated” medical information a healthy trend?
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14 Sep 07
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