Call for Papers: Medicine 2.0 Europe Conference

29-30 November 2010, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Medicine 2.0 is the well-reputed annual open, international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, also known as the World Congress on Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine, Health, Health Care, and Biomedical Research.

This incredibly important, prospering and promising field of interest deserves an open and collaborative European forum. For 2010 the IBR - Center for eHealth Research (University of Twente), the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN) and the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) host this conference which is produced by the Medicine 2.0® team of dr. Gunther Eysenbach at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Toronto. They share values such as openness, a non-commercial approach, and an evidence-based content, beyond the hype often presented in health 2.0 tradeshows.

Medicine 2.0 EUROPE will umbrella REshape (Fall edition, UMCN) and the 'Supporting health by technology' (III-rd edition) symposium series (University of Twente, RIVM).

Call for Abstracts and Presentation Proposals
Medicine 2.0'10 will contain a mix of traditional academic/research, practice and business presentations, keynote presentations, and panel discussions to discuss emerging issues. We strive for an interdisciplinary mix of presenters from different countries and disciplines (e.g. health care, social sciences, computer sciences, engineering, business) and with a different angle (research, practice, and business).

Participants are invited to either submit a 500 word abstract to propose a 15 minute single-presenter talk, or can submit a a 500 word panel proposal to present or discuss a topic in a 45-60 min session with 3-4 colleagues from other organizations/institutions (panel proposals with all authors from the same institution or organization are not permitted). Panel presentations are the preferred format for non-research presentations. Proposals for stands or poster presentations may also be submitted.

Medicine 2.0 Core Topics:

  • Blogs
  • Building virtual communities and social networking applications for health professionals
  • Building virtual communities and social networking applications for patients and consumers
  • Business models in a Web 2.0 environment
  • Collaborative biomedical research, academic / scholarly communication, publishing and peer review
  • Consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship, and sociotechnical issues
  • Ethical & legal issues, confidentiality and privacy
  • Health information on the web: Supply and Demand
  • Innovative RSS/XML applications and Mashups
  • Personal health records and Patient portals
  • Public (e-)health, population health technologies, surveillance
  • Search, Collaborative Filtering and Recommender Technologies
  • Semantic Web ("Web 3.0") applications
  • The nature and dynamics of social networks in health
  • Usability and human factors on the web
  • Virtual (3D) environments, Second Life
  • Web 2.0 approaches for behaviour change, public health and biosurveillance
  • Web 2.0 approaches for clinical practice, clinical research, quality monitoring
  • Web2.0-based medical education and learning
  • Wikis
  • Youth and Digital Learning
  • other

Medicine 2.0'10 Special Topics:

  • Persuasive communication and technology
  • Health disparities
  • New ethics
  • Communities in health care
  • Business modelling in eHealth
  • Online decision technology
  • Education
  • e-Coaching
  • Participatory health care
  • 2.0 Research methodology
  • co-Creation in health

Submissions:
Author registration opened - January 14, 2010
Author registration closed - May 31, 2010
Call for Abstracts posted - March 23, 2010
Submissions accepted - April 15, 2010
Submissions closed - May 31, 2010

For further information and registration, please visit:
http://www.medicine20congress.com

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