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Last week, we wrote about the issues of posting, participation and presence in online communities such as SpineConnect. Recently I was commenting on a blog post about crowdsourcing and participatory medicine and raised the question — what is the difference between crowdsourcing and collaboration? I did so, because over the last few months, I had [...]

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, in his book Weaving the Web, claims that his original vision of the web was one of collaboration. He wanted people to participate in two-way sharing of information and decades after the web was born, web 2.0 is breathing life back into his original vision. Medicine has always [...]

Sensibility: The ability to feel or perceive stimuli; a keen intellectual perception; mental or emotional responsiveness toward something, such as the feelings of another.; receptiveness to impression, whether pleasant or unpleasant; acuteness of feeling; refined awareness and appreciation in matters of feeling; the quality of being affected by changes in the environment.
Last week, I wrote [...]

After the successful health 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week, there have been several different “where to next?” discussions across the blogosphere. Accompanying these discussions are articles such as the one in Newsweek recently on web 2.0 and the coming of health 2.0, emphasizing “health as a social concept” and therefore, its commitment [...]

When we think about centers of excellence, what comes to mind?
State of the art buildings and equipment? Innovative research projects and programs? The sharpest minds on the planet? Urban or metropolitan locations? All of the above? These all sound like extraordinary attributes and strengths to house in one place but what could be the [...]

“If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.” Sir Isaac Newton.
In making this statement, Sir Isaac Newton paid homage to the collaborative nature of all innovation and development. These are not solo activities. We do not have the capacity to see all angles and [...]