Medicine 2.0

Posted over 2 years ago by Jon Mell
02/01/2008

Tagged with: web 2.0

I was reading an editorial in the recent Junior Doctor magazine (my fiance is a doctor...) and was struck by the similarities of how the web is changing medicine and how it is changing business.  The editorial noted the tendency toward self diagnosis (Google) and self treatment (eBay) given the wealth of information readily available on the Internet, and questioned the future role of Doctors for 'simple' conditions.  But this quotation struck me:"we've become brokers and project managers arranging services our client is requesting" This sounded rather familiar - so I dug out "the Bible" (Wikinomics) and found something similar:"companies are...