Conferences

Attended Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 to Thursday, September 4, 2008
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Attended Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)
Monday, November 29, 2010 to Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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Accepted Abstracts

Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada)

e-health in a Remote and Rural Setting in the North of Scotland- An Evolving Success Story
Grant Cumming, Andrew Fowlie , Adrian Baker , Thomas Heneghan , Neil Hamilton , Stefan Agamanolis

Thomas Friedman's aphorism Connect and Collaborate from his book "The world is Flat together with the enthusiasm supported by scientific rigor generated from Mednet 2006 were the catalysts for developing an infrastructure to delivering health and social care differently to a population of 120,000 and a geographical area covering 2238 squarekm2 in the North of Scotland. On the back of seed funding for economic growth in the region and the success of menopause1 and miscarriage2 websites, www...

Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)

ToiletFinder - Utilising the Wisdom of the Crowd
Grant Philip Cumming, Nedkov Stanislav, Mcconachie Mark, Brooks Elizabeth, Beattie Paul

In 2008 we presented “e-health in a Remote and Rural Setting in the North of Scotland - An Evolving Success Story”. The story continues! An online survey involving the local newspaper suggested that 33% of respondents would not go out if they were not sure a toilet would be available. Publicly available toilets are important to all of us. Since 1997, 1,310 public toilets in the UK have closed (16% reduction). Costs of not providing toilets can be measured in terms of street fouling and i...

The Dufftown Hypertension Project
Tara French, Thomas Heneghan, Grant Cumming, Andrew Fowlie, Christine Mcclusky

Background: In 2008 we presented “e-health in a Remote and Rural Setting in the North of Scotland - An Evolving Success Story”. Health models must move from treatment to prevention and self care, if health care is to meet the needs of everyone and be free at the point of delivery (NHS Core Principles). E-health has a role to play in delivering this agenda. Because of its rural character, the region of Moray has several isolated communities. Dufftown (population 1454) is one such communit...

Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)

Health Web Science – Definition, Scope, and How It Complements Medicine 2.0
Joanne S. Luciano*, Grant Cumming, Christopher J O Baker*, Eva Kahana

This presentation invites dialogue between Medicine 2.0, the “New Generation of Medicine” and Health Web Science, a newly established and rapidly growing subfield within mainstream Web Science that focuses on multidisciplinary medico-socio-technological issues. By developing shared understandings and appreciating both convergence and divergence in these alternative disciplinary orientations, innovation and communication can be maximized. What is web science? This presentation looks at...

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