Healthcare through social computing: a case for public–private collaboration

Jose A. Valverde

International Journal of Management and Network Economics, 2009, vol. 1, issue 3, 343-355

Abstract: Lately, a new trend has specially outreached on the Information Society that of Social Computing. Starting from a citizen-focused model of health seamless provision of services, this paper analyses some current Web 2.0 initiatives on the Health sector. These opportunities would not be fully achievable without the cooperation of public and private agents. First, an approach to Socio-Health 2.0 is made, including examples on different Social-Computing applications. Then, we propose a research framework for healthcare under the impact of Social Computing. Third, different cases are analysed to illustrate the potential and to test the framework robustness. Finally, some conclusions are drawn.

Keywords: healthcare systems; e-health; electronic healthcare; social computing; Web 2.0; social web; public–private partnerships; PPP; impact analysis; blogs; wikis; ONS; online social networks; podcasts; healthcare technology. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=30596 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijmnec:v:1:y:2009:i:3:p:343-355

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Management and Network Economics from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().