Evidence-based web 2.0

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Introduction

I am gathering major papers and evidence about social media and medicine

see Emerging evidence in web 2.0 medical literature

Introduction

See also Using web 2.0 tools in health research at UBC & Using Social Media to Promote Evidence-Based Practice

"Researchers will continue to make progress in discovering evidence-based principles for the design of e-learning, including new applications of the science of learning to educational games, simulations, and pedagogical agents." — Richard E. Mayer, University of California, USA

In 2010, the systematic study of social media in the medical and health communities is still in its early stages. However, a number of health librarians have positioned themselves to critique web 2.0 (see Booth A. Using evidence in practice: blogs, wikis and podcasts? (2007)). The U.K. health librarian Andrew Booth has said that the ephemeral nature of Internet technologies makes them disruptive, and he criticizes the "lemming-like tendency [of some librarians] ...to rush into ...new, but essentially unproven, delivery mechanism(s) without using the evidence. Given our roles in advising health professionals about social media, I suspect that building the evidence in using social media is absolutely critical.

In the final analysis, questions we are seeking answers to are:

    • which social media tools are most useful for health professionals?
    • are physicians different from nurses or pharmacists in their use of web 2.0 tools?
    • if physicians want to explore web 2.0 tools systematically, where should they first be pointed?

Web 2.0 research questions

  • What research or evidence exists that web 2.0 (social media) tools are useful in medicine (or any field)?
    • An evidence "base" is growing with a surge of interest in Facebook and Twitter (see below)
  • What is the connection between web 2.0 and teaching? Interdisciplinary practice?
    • Are physicians and health librarians just as likely to use anecdotal reports and intuition as to what is optimum in using web 2.0 tools?
  • What kinds of studies have been done thus far (i.e. surveys, case studies, etc.)?
  • Are there any good studies of the use of social software in medicine? in the area of health librarianship?
  • For physicians new to web 2.0, where is a good place to start (based on the cited evidence)?
  • Do medical school programs expect students to have web 2.0 literacy and digital fluency?
  • Is the effective use of social software mentioned in the context of medical informatics?
  • What are differences between med students who are digital natives and those who can be described as digital immigrants?
  • In terms of belonging to social groups, and social interaction, does web 2.0 have potential health benefits for users?

An early definition

"Evidence-based web 2.0 (EBW2) is the integration of the best available evidence of social software usage in promoting effective time and information management skills in the digital age. In addition to allocating time for experimentation, heuristics and 'play', physicians, librarians and information specialists will need to systematically evaluate EBW2 and build a better evidence-base given the future applications of tools."

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