Connections, collaboration & creativity:

Exploring web 2.0 applications in health informatics & professional

development

Medinfo 2007

On-site presenters:

W. Scott Erdley

Clinical Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, NY, USA

Peter J. Murray

Founding Fellow, CHIRAD, UK

Rod Ward

Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England, UK

Off-site co-presenters:

Margaret Hansen

Associate Professor, University of San Francisco, USA

Karl Oyri

Nurse Manager, Research, The Interventional Centre,

Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

William Perry

Clinical Information Specialist, Kettering Medical Center Network,

Miamisburg, OH, USA

Collaborating on various blogs, podcasts,vodcasts and other projects

www.hi-blogs.info

What is Web2.0 and why does it matter?

Peter Murray

Video-conferencing, healthcare and RSS: “whassup, dude”?

Bill Perry

Blogs and what ‘we’ have done with them

Rod Ward

Podcasting: giving education a voice

Margaret Hansen

Wikis and other collaborative work environments

Scott Erdley

What is a wiki?

- Wiki is Hawaiian for ‘fast’; original developer (Ward Cunningham) is Hawaiian

- a dynamic, group-developed web pages easily created and accessed via a browser

- content may be updated or changed by anyone visiting the website (open authors)

- allow for asynchronous group socialisation, communication and collaboration

- a tool for archiving documents, brainstorming, and collaborative writing

Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), Wikinews (www.wikinews.org/wiki/Health)

Wiki - examples

Deltadigitalhttp://www.deltadigital.no/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php

Wikiprojecthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Health_Service

Nursing Wikihttp://en.nursingwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

PB wikihttp://pbwiki.com/

Case study

NI 2006 Post-conference 5 ‘groups’ organized around themes Site hosted by group participant

http://kurse.ulrich-schrader.de/course/view.php?id=6

Site available - June 2006

Case study (2)

Pro’s: 24/7 access Machine / platform independent Asynchronous communication

Con’s: 24/7 access Asynchronous communication Participant-driven

Case study (3)

Actual use - minimal Email attachment versus use of wiki Difficult for most of group to use

Variety of rationales for this Lessons learned:

Need buy-in by participants Technical skills Time Experience with application helps Try with non-essential documents first to learn

Other ‘flavors’

Types: Personal wiki, Bliki, Semantic wiki, Structured wiki Corporate

wiki, Peer-to-peer wiki 39 different types of wiki software listed in Wikipedia (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software)

Semantic wiki “. . . a wiki that has an underlying model of the knowledge

described in its pages. Regular wikis have structured text and un-typed . . . Semantic wikis allow the ability to capture or identify further information about the pages (metadata) and their relations.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki

Wiki alternative(s)

Online office productivity applications Example: Google docs (http://docs.google.com)

aka Writely (http://www.writely.com) Main component

Separate site hosting the application Document available to invited collaborators Concurrent editing if necessary or desired

Mainly asynchronous Basic tools of word processing or spreadsheet

Wiki alternative(s) (2)

Pro’s: 24/7 access Neutral site Platform independent No cost outside of net access

Con’s: Mainly asynchronous Net access necessary Downloading / ‘save as’ document functionality

Wiki & health care application(s) Questions to think about with respect to wikis and

health / nursing use How to use?

Why use?

When use?

Example: AskDrWiki.com Project to disperse free online medical information

MD’s: Kenny Civello & Brian Jefferson

Form a repository of CV information for easy dispersal / reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_Dr_Wiki

Wiki & alternative summation

Pro’s and con’s with both More than these options Learn prior to ‘needed use’ Have fun!

Thanks to Peter Young & Steve Shastain For information in the podcasting and wiki

presentation