AMIA Presentation on Web 2.0 for Clinical Decision Support
from eHealth by John Sharp
Of the many presentations at the American Medical Informatics Association, one was about the specific application of Web 2.0 technology to clinical decision support. Three examples were given:
Clinfowiki - a wiki devoted to clinical informatics
Partners HealthCare eRooms
Epic Systems Corporation's Community LibraryCertainly, there are many other applications of Web 2.0 to medical informatics. Social networking needs to be exploited. Two examples are:
researchinformatics.org
biomedexperts.comPerhaps AMIA itself should begin a social network for its members or around each conference like Medicine 2.0 has done.