This story from the Cincinnati Business Courier, "University Hospital Offers Patients Personalized Web Pages", really gets the mind speculating. From the article:
University Hospital is providing patients and their families with private, personalized Web pages to help them keep in touch during hospital stays....This service helps minimize the amount of time patients and families spend on phone calls and repeat conversations, allowing the patient more time to heal. Patients can create or access a CarePage through a link on the hospital's Web site..... Patients can continue to post information on their CarePage after being discharged from the hospital so that friends and family can stay informed about their recovery.
"The auxiliary of the hospital is excited to help fund such a wonderful service for patients and families," Kathy Badura, director of volunteer services, University Hospital, said in a press release."It helps people communicate in a non-intrusive way and at a time that is convenient for them. It is particularly helpful for long-term care patients."
What is not explained is HOW the tool works - is it a blog, a wiki, or something else. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that it COULD be a wiki and this is a great example of applying Web 2.0 technology that both enhances the USER's quality of life AND solves a costly operational process for the enterprise. (BTW, if anyone does know the details, we'd like to hear from you)
Brilliant.
Nice snag. It really could be a wiki. It really could be simply interactive.
Things that make you go hmmmmm...
Posted by: Mark | 01/01/2006 at 02:20 AM
What other templates are new around the web besides blogs and wiki types of templates?
Isnt't there anything else?
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Posted by: dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu | 01/01/2006 at 03:17 AM