Medicine 2.0 Congress in Toronto, Sept. 2008

The Medicine 2.0 Congress will take place in Toronto, Canada on September 4-5th, 2008. This is an international conference, with the focus on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine; it is 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.

The Call for Abstracts is now open for abstracts, speaker and panel proposals - go to http://www.medicine20congress.com and pre-register. The conference invites academic and international contributions, and also covers areas such as Science 2.0, Peer-Review 2.0, and social networking for consumers AND health professionals. See the topic list at the CALL FOR ABSTRACTS http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/callforpapers.php

Deadline for abstracts is May 2, 2008. Among possible topics to address are:

• Building virtual communities and social networking applications for
• health professionals, patients and consumers;
• Collaborative biomedical research, academic / scholarly communication,
• publishing and peer review;
• Consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship, and
• sociotechnical issues;
• Ethical & legal issues, confidentiality and privacy;
• 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 clinical practice, clinical research, quality
• monitoring;
• Web2.0-based medical education and learning;
• and much more.

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