In 2008 the portal http://campus.easp.es/internetysalud was created as "a space that integrates all the projects of the Internet & Health Group, to give them greater visibility and reach, and to facilitate the immediate transfer of results to society," said team member Jaime Jiménez Pernett.
Two concrete and tangible results have been reached:
- a virtual laboratory to investigate the move to web 2.0 in the area of health issues - the www.misaludenred.org website;
- the Observatory of health-related web 2.0 "that has the same objective as other observatories in the field of innovation, that is, the gathering of information and the preparation of description reports on the development of web 2.0 in the field of health," Jiménez Pernett explained.
The 'misaludenred.org' website is a platform for creating, developing and evaluating virtual communities on specific health issues. It consists of several spaces for the exchange of information, experience and recommendations between users, based on 'social software' - groups and forums, blogs and wikis, tagging tools (collaborative tagging), and repositories of multimedia resources (pictures, audio and videos). The platform furthermore has several RSS feeds.
Since early 2010, 'misaludenred.org' has been piloted by the discussion group on motherhood issues called 'For respected birth'. Currently available are seven communities whose focus themes have been prioritised according to the results of former studies conducted by the Internet and Health Group: teenagers, carers of cancer patients, clinicians and researchers and virtual community managers.
"The aim is to involve the users by using a strategy of 'researching by doing' in the frame of misaludenred.org." The platform can be expanded and it is open to professional groups and patients looking for an interaction space on the Internet.
As for the Observatory of health-related web 2.0, several reports have been published through 'misaludenred.org' and via social networking and micro blogging sites. "This is the case of the report on the presence of Spanish hospitals in social media (also available at http://redessocialesenhospitales.wordpress.com/)" Jiménez Pernett explained. He added that this study sought to measure the level of integration of web 2.0 tools and social media in Spanish hospitals, by using descriptive methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative.
"In the frame of other projects such as the identification of virtual communities on the themes of motherhood and cancer, we developed mixed methodologies which gather network analysis techniques and netnographic methodologies (the Netnography is the branch of sociology that deals with the analysis of the free behavior of individuals on the Internet.)" "In the coming months [beginning of 2011] we will publish new reports on health issues such as emergency contraception, body images and healthy aging, among others," Jiménez Pernett concluded.
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Quelle/Source: epractice, 19.01.2011
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