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Do you ever feel like technology is moving so fast, you think you've missed the train? Over the past decade the Internet emerged from a place to search and download information (the phase known as Web 1.0) to a virtual environment where people can interact, collaborate, seek and share information, and create virtual online communities around a shared interest (the phase known as Web 2.0).
O'Reilly, who is considered to be the father of Web 2.0 stated that the success of Web 2.0 lay in the fact that it provided tools that embraced the power of the Internet to harness collective intelligence (O'Reilly, 2005). For the last few years people in the computer technology world have already begun talking about the next phase: Web 3.0. This is where users will interact with the Internet using more senses (e.g. touch, vibration, smell).
According to the Pew Research Center 61 percent of Americans go online for health information, which tells us that many consumers want and, more importantly, are willing to use online health resources (Hardy, 2010). Interactive online technologies enable us to seek, find, collect, organize and share share information with others. |
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People working in health care have not adopted interactive online tools the way that people in sectors such as business, education and politics have. Hamilton and Penman (2010) suggest potential reasons behind the slow uptake of online online technology by healthcare practitioners, including:
Rainie (2010) reports in a summary of a Pew Internet Research report that 72% of technology stakeholders and critics agreed with the statement: "By 2020, innovative forms of online cooperation will result in significantly more efficient and responsive governments, business, non-profits, and other mainstream institutions", but this change will cause tension and disruption.
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