Toronto, Canada
September 4-5, 2008
Medicine 2.0™ is an international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring organizations.
Medicine 2.0™ will contain a mix of traditional academic/research, practice and business presentations, keynote presentations, and panel discussions to discuss emerging issues.
Medicine 2.0™ strives for an interdisciplinary mix of presenters from different disciplines (e.g. health care, social sciences, computer sciences, engineering, business) and with a different angle (research, practice, and business).
Participants are invited to either submit a 500 word abstract to propose a 15 minute single-presenter talk, or can submit a a 500 word panel proposal to present or discuss a topic in a 45-60 min session with 3-4 colleagues from other organizations/institutions (panel proposals with all authors from the same institution are discouraged). Panel presentations are the preferred format for non-research presentations.
Proposed Topics
(you will be asked to submit your panel proposal or scientific single-presenter abstract under one of the following broad topic headings)
- Blogs
- Building virtual communities and social networking applications for health professionals
- Building virtual communities and social networking applications for patients and consumers
- Business models in a Web 2.0 environment
- Collaborative biomedical research, academic / scholarly communication, publishing and peer review
- Consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship, and sociotechnical issues
- Ethical & legal issues, confidentiality and privacy
- Health information on the web: Supply and Demand
- Innovative RSS/XML applications
- Personal health records and Patient portals
- Public (e-)health, population health technologies, surveillance
- Search, Collaborative Filtering and Recommender Technologies
- Semantic Web ("Web 3.0") applications
- The nature and dynamics of social networks in health
- Usability and human factors on the web
- Virtual (3D) environments, Second Life
- Web 2.0 approaches for behaviour change, public health and biosurveillance
- Web 2.0 approaches for clinical practice, clinical research, quality monitoring
- Web2.0-based medical education and learning
- Wikis
- Youth and Digital Learning
- other
Deadline for Abstracts: May 2nd, 2008.
Deadline for Early Bird and Speaker Registration: June 30th, 2008.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.medicine20congress.com |
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