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MEDICINE

2.0:

A SURVEY OF THE USE OF MEDICINE

2.0

SERVICESAND TECHNOLOGIES AMONG SAUDI DENTISTS

Asma, N. Al-Otaibi

IT-King Saud UniversityRiyadh, K.S.Aalotaibi.asma@gmail.com

BSTRACT

Web 2.0 technologies have played a huge role in the development of mostly all fields of life including health care. Medicine 2.0 technologies have made life easier in terms of services, research and information communication, for health consumers, patients, medical professionals and nursing staff. Dentistry is an ever changing field. Medicine2.0 can help dentists get updated and improve their knowledge and skills. This paper talks about some examples of theses services and technologies and how much Saudi dentists use and get benefit from them.

Keywords

Medicine 2.0, web 2.0, web2.0 technologies, web2.0 services, dentistry, dentists.

NTRODUCTION

Web 2.0 technologies and services play an effective role in all fields generally and medicine and healthcarepeople specifically, from here the medicine 2.0 is so termed. In this paper, some technologies and services ofweb 2.0 in medicine and their examples are discussed. The survey results of Saudi dentists of how much theyget benefit and advantages from medicine 2.0 are also discussed.

ACKGROUND

Web 1.0 users follow links to content, whereas now with Web 2.0 users comment, edit and create content.

“

The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLiveInternational. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web wasmore important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What'smore, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be thatthe dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as Web2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.

”

Web 2.0 is a collection of (mostly) free web services including Web based community sites, blogs, wikis, socialbookmarking, and Really Simple Syndication (RSS), since Medicine is an ever changing field, those services

and technologies have become applied to the medical field, and from here the term “medicine 2.0” appears

world wildly. Medicine 2.0 is the direct result of utilization of Web 2.0 technologies in medical science.

2.1 What is medicine 2.0?

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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html(19thDecember2008)

Medicine 2.0 simply is the use of web 2.0 services and technologies in the medical field that interest everyonefrom health and medical professionals to patients and caregiver, to the businesses

(pharmaceuticalmanufacturers, health insurance) which support them. [1]

2.2 medicines 2.0 Features:

These are some of medicine 2.0 features:

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The user creates the content and plays a huge role in its development, medical staff: doctors, patientsand all healthcare professionals write and exchange information and make use of lots of experiencesof one another. Thus, this process has made it much easier for people around the world to easily andquickly access and get this information.

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Participation and cooperation in the videos uploading, each doctor uploads medical materials, such as;medical surgeries, explanations and cases.

2.3

Web 2.0 services and technologies used in Medicine:

Some technologies and services of web 2.0 and some examples of their use in the medicine are discussedbelow:

2.3.1

Technologies:a) Podcast

(A podcast is a portable audio file) that you can listen to while working.

“The term

podcasting

derives its name from Apple's iPod, but to create a podcast or even to listen to one, youdon't need to own an iPod, or any portable music player for that matter. In a nutshell, Podcasting is a new typeof online media delivery.

”

b) RSS

It is a way to quickly find out new information on the internet.

(

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication).

“RSS

is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works

—

such as blog entries, newsheadlines, audio, and video in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web

feed”,

or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Webfeeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want tosubscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSSfeeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based or desktop-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and

viewed by many different programs.”

Medworm is

an example of

RSS Aggregators

2.3.2Services:a)Social Networking:

http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/07/20/WhatIsPodcasting.html?page=1#heading2(19thDecember2008)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS(19thDecember2008)

in order to get to know physicians from around the world and exchange information or keep in touch with yourcolleagues in the medical field

e.g Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn.

Web 2.0 is based on communities andcollaboration, so that patients can find online support groups, join health communities or just read about theirmedical problems described by others.

Physicians can also join medical communities, upload their CV and findcollaborators from around the world, or find a job via this community. [2]

b) Social Media:

Social mediarefers to any media shared online (e.g., videos, music, photos, news, etc e.g;

Labaction

:whichprovides free sources of latest information, news and videos on all specialized medical subjects

E.g

YouTube, SlideShare and MedicalVideos.us

are also great collection of medical educational videos andlectures.

Athedoctorschannel

is another example of a web site that allows doctors to learn from each other attheir convenience. This time-saving site includes short one- to two-minute streaming video clips designed toget to the point, with insights and opinions. [3]

c)Social Bookmarking:

“

Social bookmarkingallows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks fromanywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a muchmore flexible system than foldersDelicious can be used by medical professionals to bookmark websites for future references, share them withcolleagues or with medical students or residents for teaching purposes.

”

d) Medical Blogs:

“A blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Atypical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic”

“

(web log or internet diary) provide content and express opinion on healthcare that you can never find in amedical paper

”

. Blogs function as a forum for discussing questions and answers, exchanging experiencesand interaction with others in similar problems so that patients, physicals, and other healthcare professionalsget advantages and benefits. The following are examples of blogs by Healthcare Professionals:-www.casesblog.blogspot.com: medical commentary and clinical cases by physicians at Case WesternReserve University that includes clinical cases and Images.-www.codeblog.com:includes stories from a nurse.

e) Medical Search Engines:

Medical search engines use sources and sites selected by the most related, reliable and trusted medicalinformation of the best quality, in contrast to many general search engines like Google, yahoo which display

some results that can’t be relevant.

E.g

pubmed, Healthline, Omni Medical Search,

Google health

and

Microsoft HealthVault.

[4]

Google Health:

Google Health is a complete free and safe and secure engine that allows you to store andmanage all of your health information in one central place, keep your doctors up-to-date, stop filling out thesame paperwork every time you see a new doctor, and avoid getting the same lab tests done over and overagain because your doctor cannot get copies of your latest results and not to lose your medical recordsbecause of a move, change in jobs or health insurance. All you need to get started is a Google username andpassword. With Google Health, you can:

build online health profiles, import medical records from hospitals

http://medicineandman.com/meditech/online_bookmarks.html(19thDecember2008)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog(19thDecember2008)

http://scienceroll.com/2007/06/08/10-tips-for-how-to-use-web-20-in-medicine/ (19thDecember2008)