Toronto, Canada is an excellent place to be for those interested in medicine 2.0.

A few reasons:

• Close-knit hospitals networks that are pretty darn forward-thinking with EMR adoption and tolerance for social media
• University of Toronto is an international research powerhouse not only in biomedical sciences (2nd to Harvard in research output every year), but in collaboration with…
• Cutting-edge tech & social media-driven institutes like MaRS Discovery District and the Center for Global eHealth Innovations.
• We have our own Medicine 2.0 Congress every September, organized by Dr. Gunther Eysenbach from U of T

  Medicine 2.0™ is an international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring organizations.

Featured Project: Toronto.ca OPEN (Ongoing)

Toronto.ca/open, the city of Toronto’s official data set opened up to the web, is not exactly medicine 2.0, but is a great example of “building a city that thinks like the web”.

Part of medicine 2.0 is about supporting the enriched dissemination of information among all kinds of stakeholders, cities and citizens of course included. Medical professionals who have interests in research will also be concerned about the business of doing science “in the open”.

Finally, the City says it’s committed to “open, accessible, transparent” government. Isn’t that what we want health care to be?

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