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The following overview of the major trends in health care offers guidance for preparing individuals, organizations, and medical practitioners for the health-care landscape ahead. This guide will be continuously updated, so reader feedback is welcome.

How data and digital imaging are shaping virtual autopsies -- an excerpt from "Beautiful Visualization."

Eight in ten internet users have looked online for health information. Many e-patients say the internet has had a significant impact on the way they care for themselves or for others.

In a very significant development for eHealth, a broad adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and approaches coincides with the more recent emergence of Personal Health Application Platforms and Personally Controlled Health Records such as Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault, and Dossia. "Medicine 2.0" applications, services, and tools are defined as Web-based services for health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers, that use Web 2.0 technologies and/or semantic web and virtual reality approaches to enable and facilitate specifically 1) social networking, 2) participation, 3) apomediation, 4) openness, and 5) collaboration, within and between these user groups. The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) publishes a Medicine 2.0 theme issue and sponsors a conference on "How Social Networking and Web 2.0 changes Health, Health Care, Medicine, and Biomedical Research", to stimulate and encourage research in these five areas. (J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e22) doi:10.2196/jmir.1030

This wiki has been set up as a service to the community of visionaries, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, policy makers, and professionals who are working on fundamentally redefining the healthcare industry along the lines of "Web 2.0". The Health 2.0 movement was initiated at the first Health Camp, which took place in December 2006 in San Francisco, CA. A new series of HealthCamp events kicked off in June 2008.

Interesting video with facts and about Health 2.0

AIBS was established in 2005 by a group of scientists, who shared common ideas and values and had a vision of creating an institute in Greece that would perform state-of-the-art biomedical research in a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Therefore we set our first goal to conduct research with the highest scientific standards. Such a goal sets us active in the development and execution of bio-medical research in several fields of Medicine (Cardiology, Infectious Diseases, Critical Care, Preventive Medicine etc), Surgery (General, Ophthalmology etc) and Public Health (Biostatistics, Epidemiology). So far, we have been quite successful in publishing the results of our efforts in peer-reviewed biomedical journals

En esta entrevista los dos médicos no tan sólo repasan las mejoras producidas en su especialidad sino que también reflexionan sobre cómo las nuevas tecnologías afectan a la asistencia médica actual.

Health BodyMaps is an exhaustive set of searchable body maps - think Gray's Anatomy meets CT scan. It comes with a library of medical and treatment knowledge, but the central focus of the tool are the colored, interactive maps of everything from the pancreas to the digestive system to the body as a whole