Wednesday, September 19, 2012

5th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web2.0 in Health and Medicine - Boston, September 2012


  • Blogs and Twitter in Health

  • 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

  • Science 2.0, 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 and Mashups

  • Personal health records and Patient portals

  • Public (e-)health, population health technologies, surveillance

  • Digital Disease Detection and Biosurveillance using Twitter and other social media/mhealth/Internet sources

  • 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 and public health

  • Web 2.0 approaches for clinical practice, clinical research, quality monitoring

  • Web2.0-based medical education and learning

  • Wikis

  • Business modelling in eHealth

  • Communities in health care

  • Digital Learning

  • e-Coaching

  • Health disparities

  • Human-Computer Interface (HCI) Design

  • Online decision technology

  • Participatory health care

  • Persuasive communication and technology

  • mHealth Applications

  • Ubiquitous, pervasive ehealth; domotics; Internet of things

  • New and emerging Technologies

http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/index.php/med/med2012/schedConf/overview