Yesterday I had the opportunity to spend four hours teaching  in the Master of  Health Promotion with the postgraduate students at Universitat de Girona.  I have integrated Towards Health Mass-self communication within the framework of Health Promotion and have mixed some theoretical approach, empirical data and two case studies. Here goes the presentation. I hope they enjoyed as much as I did.  Finally I would like to thank the direction of the Master for their invitation (it is the second year).

I have finished to check the proof of my article entitled Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 within the health care systems: an empirical exploration for Informatics for Health and Social Care (An International Journal of Informatics in Health Care).

Here goes the abstract:

The Internet has become one of the main drivers of e-health. Whilst its impact and potential is being analysed, the Web 2.0 phenomenon has reached the health field and has emerged as a buzzword that people use to describe a wide range of online activities and applications. The aims of this article are: to explore the opportunities and challenges of the Web 2.0 within the health care system and to identify the gap between the potential of these online activities and applications and the empirical data. The analysis is based on: online surveys to physicians, nurses, pharmacist and patient support groups; static web shot analysis of 1240 web pages and exploration of the most popular Web 2.0 initiatives. The empirical results contrast with the Web 2.0 trends identified. Whereas the main characteristic of the Web 2.0 is the opportunity for social interaction, the health care system at large could currently be characterised by: a lack of interactive communication technologies available on the Internet; a lack of professional production of health care information on the Internet, and a lack of interaction between these professionals and patients on the Internet. These results reveal a scenario away from 2.0 trends.

The article has been done with Miquel Angel Mayer and Joan Torrent, colleagues from Interdisciplinary Research Group on ICTs (i2TIC), and will be published on September 2009.

I would like to thank indeed Ruslan David, eHealthNews.EU Portal Administrator/Editor, for his help to disseminate the results of the research project E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia and also for his wonderful job as Editor of eHealthNews.EU - the First European eHealth News Portal.

During this month I have been working on my wiki site. I have organized the items by these categories:

• Articles
• Books
• Institutions
• People
• Research Centers
• Surveys and Indicators

As I have said in another post this space is just a personal notebook. But of course comments will be welcome. I will appreciate them.

You can also visit ICTconsequences Bibliography. Now there are 311 records available.

Finally I have decided to star ICTconsequeces Wiki. I will use it as a personal notebook to share the comments about resources I am working with and it also helps me to order my personal notes.

Again it is just a working web project so I hope I will improve its integration with the rest of the site and I will fill it with more notes and resources.

Like most of the researchers I have to manage references and bibliography. Since I started the Phd courses I had tried some of the software available. During the last year I also have tried Refbase,   Bibciter and other open source tools.
The result is ICTconsequences Bibliography and the aim is to arrange and share the bibliography I use. As the blog, this is a work web in progress.

Thanks anyway to Ismael Peña

My name is Paco Lupiáñez and I am a lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia, Information and Communication Science Studies.

In my first post I would like to thank indeed Ismael Peña for his support and for sharing many of his ideas and knowledge with me. He is one of the reasons why I have this blog.

I`m still not clear about what this blog means. I guess in the beginning it’s just a tool to try to put in order and share some resources, ideas, references… about things I am working on. It’s just a work in progess web project.

You can contact me: flupianez [at] ictconsequences.net

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!