Nine (9) groups or categories, seventy-five (75+) medical web 2.0 services of note in 2008. Not necessarily by importance, influence, utility or value – merely mentioned ‘most often’ by bloggers & traditional media (see this easy-to-print version).
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1. Academic science 2.0 (social networking) (8 services)
i. BioCrowd – http://www.biocrowd.com/
ii. BioMedExperts – http://www.biomedexperts.com/
iii. LabRoots – http://www.labroots.com/ 
iv. MyExperiment – http://www.myexperiment.org/
v. NatureNetwork – http://network.nature.com/
vi. phLab – http://phlab.org/
vii. ResearchGATE – https://www.researchgate.net/
viii. SciWeavers – http://sciweavers.org/
2. Bookmarking & infomanagement (12 services)
i. Amedico – http://amedico.com/
ii. CiteMD – http://citemd.com/cms/
iii. CiteULike – http://citeulike.com/
iv. Connotea – http://connotea.org/ 
v. Delicious – http://delicious.com
vi. Digg – http://digg.com
vii. Diigo – http://www.diigo.com/
viii. LabMeeting – http://www.labmeeting.com/
ix. Mendeley – http://www.mendeley.com/
x. Ologeez – http://ologeez.stanford.edu/
xi. PeerClip – http://www.peerclip.com/
xii. 2Collab – http://www.2collab.com/
3. Consumer health 2.0 (social networking) (12 services)
i. CareFlash – http://www.careflash.com/
ii. Curetogether – http://www.curetogether.com/
iii. DailyStrength – http://dailystrength.org/ 
iv. Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/
v. HealthChapter – http://healthchapter.com/
vi. HelloHealth – http://www.hellohealth.com/
vii. Inspire – http://www.inspire.com/
viii. PatientsLikeMe – http://patientslikeme.com/
ix. PsychCentral – http://psychcentral.com/
x. RevolutionHealth – http://www.revolutionhealth.com/
xi. SecondLife – http://secondlife.com/
xii. SoberCircle – http://www.sobercircle.com/
4. Medicine 2.0 (social networking) (8 services)
i. Doc2Doc – http://doc2doc.bmj.com/
ii. DoctorsHangout – http://doctorshangout.com/
iii. MedicalPlexus – http//medicalplexus.com/
iv. MedXCentral – http://medxcentral.ning.com/ 
v. Ozmosis – http://ozmosis.com/
vi. Sermo – http://www.sermo.com/
vii. SocialMD – http://www.socialmd.com/
viii. Within3 – http://within3.com/
5. Micro-blogging, -searching & -aggregation (7 services)
i. FriendFeed – http://friendfeed.com/rooms/medicine-2-0-microcarnival/ (microcarnival for docs)
ii. Identi.ca – http://identi.ca/
iii. Monitter – http://monitter.com/
iv. Twittersearch – http://search.twitter.com/
v. Twitter – http://twitter.com /
vi. List of 69 Twitter services – http://smartech.blogetery.com/2008/05/16/69-twitter-web-services-you-should-know/
vii. Yammer – http://www.yammer.com/
6. Open knowledge-sharing sites (8 services)
i. AskDrWiki – http://askdr.wiki.com/ 
ii. e-Meducation – http://www.e-meducation.org/
iii. HealthMash – http://healthmash.com/
iv. InfoMedMD – http://www.infomedmd.com
v. Knol – http://knol.google.com/k
vi. Medpedia – http://www.medpedia.com
vii. Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/
viii. UBC Health Library wiki (list of medical wikis) – http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Medical_wikis
7. Personal life 2.0 & genetics tracking (13 services)
i. eHealthMe – http://www.ehealthme.com/
ii. FitBit – http://www.fitbit.com/
iii. GenePartner – http://www.genepartner.com/ 
iv. Geni – http://www.geni.com/
v. GoogleHealth – http://www.google.com/health/
vi. Keyose.com – http://keyose.com/
vii. LifeMojo – http://www.lifemojo.com/
viii. Medsphere – http://medsphere.org/
ix. Microsoft HealthVault – http://www.healthvault.com/
x. Medziva – http://www.medziva.com/
xi. My Digital Health – http://www.mydigitalhealth.com/
xii. MyFamilyHealth – http://www.myfamilyhealth.com/home/
xiii. 23andMe – https://www.23andme.com/
8. Search 2.0 tools (10 services)
i. Google Coop Health – http://google.com/coop/
ii. Hakia – http://hakia.com
iii. Healia – http://www.healia.com/
iv. Healthline – http://healthline.com/ 
v. iMedix – http://www.imedix.com/
vi. MEDgle – http://medgle.com/
vii. MeraMD – http://meramd.com/
viii. OrganizedWisdom – http://organizedwisdom.com/
ix. RightHealth – http://www.righthealth.com/
x. TRIPAnswers – http://www.tripanswers.org/
9. Slide & video sharing sites (10 services)
i. bliptv – http://blip.tv/
ii. DNATube – http://www.dnatube.com/
iii. LabAction – http://www.labaction.com/
iv. MEDTing – http://medting.com/ 
v. SciVee – http://www.scivee.com/
vi. SecondSlide – https://www.secondslide.com/
vii. SlideShare – http://www.slideshare.net/
viii. TeacherTube – http://www.teachertube.com/
ix. WebMed Technology – http://www.webmedtechnology.com/physician/video.htm/l
x. YouTube – http://youtube.com/
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For regular updates on how web 2.0 is changing medicine, and to track trends throughout the year, see Ves Dimov’s blog or Bertalan Mesko’s blog.
Yvonne Chan
lse721
Missing:Ozmosis.com for doc social networking. Also MedicalPlexus.Miissing:OrganizedWisdom.com for health search. Also Hakia.com (non-health specific semantic search). Personal Life 2.0 missing: Thecarrot.com, also Google me-trics (now in Beta). Other me-trics sites available.Patients, e-patients, Patients 2.0 missing: e-patients.net, CureTogether. Also Hello Health specific practice in NYC, not social networking site per se.
Hi Jen,
Thanks, I know most of these sites but will only add a few of them (until they are released in 2009). Hope you found the list useful.
Dean,
I write a Consumer Health blog and would like to post an item about this list. okay? Can you give me some background? How was it compiled? Is this a stable/perma link? thanks.
Thank you, Dean, for the mention and for the great list.
My blog’s url is scienceroll.com and not .org (yet
Hi Eunice & Berci,
I have corrected your blog address Berci, and Eunice of course! feel free to beg, borrow or steal anything on the blog.
Happy holidays
Dean
Hi, Dean. Thanks for a great list and overview! But I have a respectful question: Why is Delicious.com(which is really useful for a lot of us) not on your list…?
Creaky
Never mind! I just saw it on your list – Sorry!
Creaky
Creaky et al,
If there are any other omissions – let me know.
I think that there are a few sites that I could *remove* because they are ‘in beta’ or ‘in development’ but I’ve included them to raise broad awareness in the medical community.
My method in compiling this list will be described in a future post.
Happy holidays,
dean
Very helpful list! I would like to add Mednar and the site I work on, ScanGrants. Mednar is much the coming tool in medical search.
Hi Hope,
I have added Mednar to the wiki entry that corresponds to a continually-updated version of this blogpost. Happy new year:
Top Web 2.0 Services in Medicine – 2008
Dean
Hi, Dean. Yay–thank you so much. Your post about wikis was very interesting reading.
Hope
Thanks very much for this excellent overview!
Jacqueline
To the person who leaves messages as “anon”. Please understand that I do not respond to anonymous messages.
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Another site that is missing is Wellescent.com. It is an online health community where members share their experiences with others having similar health concerns. The Web 2.0 site facilitates member communication and allows members to post links related to useful resources that they have found in the course of managing their condition. Additionally, the site has a blog with regular posting on health issues, health research, health care and health care politics.
Hello – another site out there is FacetoFace Health. It’s designed to match patients together so they can have direct one on one conversations with each other.
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