Adopted from the journal's abstract with some modifications:
Background: When “Web 2.0” technologies are used in health care, the terms “Health 2.0" or "Medicine 2.0” may be used. The meaning of the terms change with time due to the fact that the Web 2.0 is by itself a rapidly evolving technology.
Objective: The objective was to identify unique definitions of Health 2.0/Medicine 2.0 and recurrent topics within the definitions.
Methods: The constant comparison method is used as a systematic literature review methodology to assess all literature, extracted unique definitions and selected recurrent topics in order to find unique definitions of Health 2.0/Medicine 2.0. The literature primarily comes from 2 sources: the medical journal literature (i.e. PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL) and the "gray" literature (i.e. articles from the Internet using some search engines).
Results: We found a total of 1937 articles, 533 in scientific databases and 1404 in the gray literature. We selected 46 unique definitions for further analysis and identified 7 main topics.
Conclusions: Health 2.0/Medicine 2.0 are still developing areas. Many articles concerning this subject were found, primarily on the Internet. However, there is still no general consensus regarding the definition of Health 2.0/Medicine 2.0. We hope that this study will contribute to building the concept of Health 2.0/Medicine 2.0 and facilitate discussion and further research.
Author Comments: Great effort by the author of the article! It helps people to understand that 1) the definition of Health 2.0 is not settle yet. 2) the reason why it is never too clear about what Health 2.0 is about. While you read the articles regarding Health 2.0, bear in mind that the terms are really just like a signpost rather than a description of what it is. At the end of the day, what is important is it tells you about how Web is been used in Healthcare. Hope you enjoy it!
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