Healthline Hosts Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival 7/24/07

Send me your submissions for all things about the confluence of Web 2.0 and healthcare. Hungarian medical student, genetics scientist, blogger and Wikipedia contributer Bertalan Mesko has been a pioneer in Medicine 2.0. It is his belief that the new generation of web services will change the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered.

The main features of Web 2.0 that are applicable to the world of medicine are RSS feeds, podcasts and videocasts. Fellow Healthline blogger Joshua Schwimmer MD writes super-smart posts at Tech Medicine on all of these applications. Sadly, Healthline isn't up to speed yet in offering these state of the art Web 2.0 features. Maybe our new funding and partnerships will help us get there (?). Ten million adults read health blogs.

Mesko's slideshow provides instructions for subscribing to your favorite blog's RSS feed. Medical search engines are vertical search engines of peer reviewed content, in Healthline's case, using a unique consumer friendly medical taxonomy.

The Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival is getting off to a slow start, but I have gotten some interesting submissions - thanks! I want more! I am especially interested in critical analysis of the limits of Web 2.0 and the applications to medicine. I wouldn't mind hearing from those quiet people in clinical informatics. What are you up to?

thanks unabonger, for use of image Mobile Podcast Recording Studio.