Meskó B, Dubecz A. Orvosi Hetilap, 148(44)
The importance of the internet and some new generation services of the web (so-called web 2.0) is exponentially growing. As web 2.0 is based on collaboration, feedback and communities, it can ease the work of physicians. The authors give a short overview of the web 2.0 tools created for physicians.
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Heilman JM et al, J Med Internet Res, 13(1)
The Internet has become an important health information resource for patients and the general public. Wikipedia, a collaboratively written Web-based encyclopedia, has become the dominant online reference work. It is usually among the top results of search engine queries, including when medical information is sought. Since April 2004, editors have formed a group called WikiProject Medicine to coordinate and discuss the English-language Wikipedia’s medical content.
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Trevena L. BMJ, 342(jun08 3)
In January 2011, members of WikiProject Medicine published an article about the intricacies, strengths, and weaknesses of Wikipedia as a source of health information and compared it with other medical wikis. The article poses some interesting challenges and opportunities for the global community as Wikipedia’s seven year old WikiProject Medicine reaches an estimated 150 million viewers every month.
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Leithner A et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(4)
The English version of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has been recently reported to be the prominent source of online health information. However, there is little information concerning the quality of information found in Wikipedia. Therefore, we created a questionnaire asking for scope, completeness, and accuracy of information found on osteosarcoma. Three independent observers tested the English version of Wikipedia, as well as the patient version and the health professional version of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) website. Answers were verified with authoritative resources and international guidelines.
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Rajagopalan MS et al, J Clin Oncol, 28:7s (suppl; abstr 6058)
Background:
A Wiki is a website which can be directly, openly edited; Wikipedia, a collaborative encyclopedia, is a well-known example. Due to a Wiki’s lack of editorial control and formal structure, we hypothesized that the content would be less complete and less accurate than that presented on a formal, peer-reviewed web site. Our goal was to compare the coverage, accuracy, and readability of cancer information from a Wiki (Wikipedia) with a peer-reviewed web site, the patient-oriented National Cancer Institute’s Physician Data Query (PDQ) comprehensive cancer database.
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Friedlin J, McDonald CJ, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(3)
The logical observation identifiers names and codes (LOINC) database contains 55 000 terms consisting of more atomic components called parts. LOINC carries more than 18 000 distinct parts. It is necessary to have definitions/descriptions for each of these parts to assist users in mapping local laboratory codes to LOINC. It is believed that much of this information can be obtained from the internet; the first effort was with Wikipedia. This project focused on 1705 laboratory analytes (the first part in the LOINC laboratory name).
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Murray S et al, Open Medicine, 3(3)
This past month marked an exciting development at Open Medicine: the launch of the Open Medicine wiki. The first publication to be housed on the wiki is a scoping review of studies examining the use of asynchronous telehealth by Deshpande and colleagues. T
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Lozeau A, Potter B. Wisconsin Medical Journal, 108(1)
In this age of information technology, physicians are confronted daily with the dilemma of how to deal with an excess of medical information. To do this efficiently and effectively, it is important to be aware of new technologies and their application.
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Laurent, Michaël R., and Tim J. Vickers, JAMIA, 16(4)
OBJECTIVE
To determine the significance of the English Wikipedia as a source of online health information.
DESIGN
We measured Wikipedia’s ranking on general Internet search engines by entering keywords from MedlinePlus, NHS Direct Online and the National Organization of Rare Diseases as queries into search engine optimization software. We assessed whether article quality influenced this ranking. We tested whether traffic to Wikipedia coincided with epidemiological trends and news of emerging health concerns, and how it compares to MedlinePlus.
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Lau, Adela S. M., Informatics for Health and Social Care, 34, no. 1
The ICD11 draft was launched by the WHO in order to define ICD ontology by selected experts using a wiki-like structured joint-authoring tool. The challenge of this expert-/community-based ontology co-authoring is how to manage and process the ontology objects in the wiki page. The wiki-tools in the market require lots of time and human effort to organise, process and extract the ontology content from the wiki page for review and analysis.
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Mühlhauser I, Oser F. Zeitschrift Für Evidenz, Fortbildung Und Qualität Im Gesundheitswesen, 102(7)
Patients and consumers are increasingly searching the Internet for medical and healthcare information. Using the criteria of evidence-based medicine the present study analyses the websites of Wikipedia and two major German statutory health insurances for content and presentation of patient information. 22 senior students of health sciences and education evaluated one topic each. In a first step, they identified the evidence for their specific question. Afterwards they used their results as reference for the evaluation of the three websites. Using a check list each student and a second researcher independently rated content and presentation of the information offered.
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