@Daniel – I’ve never seen that site before, thanks for pointing me to it. Health 2.0 is definitely seeing the potential of social networking and I’m looking forward to building community around wellness. Thanks for stopping by!

I was thinking how a Twitter for Health could even replace more traditional sites like http://www.thestatus.com, which seem very outdated compared to the openness and collaborative nature of Twitter. Why not build a social network around the tagline “How are you doing”, instead of “what are you doing”?

RE. brainstorming Twitter health applications, there are lots more. Examples: behavior modification, support groups, nursing support for the chronically ill, epidemiology research tracking spread of specific symptoms, tracking branding and reactions to local health services, provide nursing question line, insurance troubleshooting contact, service to facilitate access to meds, lots more. What health services are provided in f2f, by phone or email, and which might be possible to make available via Twitter. Remember there are private versions of Twitter for confidential patient group discussions. Could get the software and set up a “twitter” for AA, for example.

My most recent blog post is also on Twitter – an illustration of what the conversation looks like reworked for those who don’t currently use Twitter. Example if from the conference plenary the morning after the presentation shown above.

http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/etechlib/archives/2008/05/twittering_the.html

Andre – Thanks so much for sharing this…already used Twitter to pay it forward to @Marston, who runs SugarStats.com (featured in slide 29).

Best –
Jen McCabe Gorman
Health Management Rx
Health 2.0 USA
neXthealth.nl

Hope all is well. Thanks for posting. The outages aren’t fun, but I still really like twitter. I never knew about all those functional possibilities! It will be interesting to see the new uses for health communication. Might need to rally the troops at the office and brainstorm a few.