PrWeb published a press release about Webicina.com.



The mission of Webicina is to build a bridge between medical professionals and e-patients by providing e-learning tools, personalized packages and online image building solutions. Webicina aims to help physicians make their online activity as efficient as possible and help patients how to find reliable medical information online.

Budapest, Hungary (PRWEB) November 6, 2008 — “Web 2.0 for physicians and patients”, that is the motto of Webicina, an online service focusing on how medical professionals of the 21st century can meet the expectations of e-patients and how patients can find reliable information and web 2.0 services about a specific medical condition.

E-patients are patients who try to find relevant medical information on the web; want to communicate with their doctors via e-mail or IM; share health stories in patient community sites and store their medical files online. They will change the way medicine is practiced and most of physicians are not ready for this challenge.

Webicina offers personalized medicine 2.0 packages that provide patients and physicians with all the web 2.0 tools they need to know about a medical specialty or medical condition. Patients who are interested in diabetes receive all the selected, quality blogs, blog carnivals, community sites, videos, slideshows, etc. focusing on diabetes in a digestible format.

It also helps doctors how to build a proper online reputation and the e-learning tools were designed to let them learn how to launch a successful medical blog; how to organize medical meetings in the virtual world of Second Life; and how to follow the medical literature more easily. Free e-courses are accessible without registration.

“We are sure web 2.0 can change the way healthcare is delivered and while the number of e-patients is growing rapidly, the number of web-savvy doctors is not, so we must help them to understand each other and be ready for the challenges web 2.0 sets up.” said Bertalan Mesko, founder of Webicina.com.

For more information, or to schedule an interview, please contact Bertalan Mesko.

We just created a new banner for Webicina that will appear on several websites and medical blogs soon. Of course, feel free to use it.



And stay tuned for some improvements in the near future. We will make personalized packages even more attractive for patients.

To help you make the right choice, we decided to list the most popular Medicine 2.0 Packages.

If a patient would like to know which web 2.0 tools can provide support or reliable health information, which communities to join and which blogs to read, this personalized package is made for them. We have pre-designed packages for these medical conditions and terms, but let us know if you have a different request and we will construct your package as well:

• Alcoholism
• Allergy
• Autism
• Cancer
• Depression
• Diabetes
• Pregnancy
• Weight Loss

If you are a medical professional, our set of web 2.0 tools can help you improve your practice or research; build networks with collaborators and track the articles in your field efficiently. Here are our most popular packages:

• Cardiology
• Genetics
• Gynecology
• Internal Medicine
• Oncology
• Radiology

Webicina is an online service that aims to provide medical professionals and patients with e-learning tools and personalized solutions focusing on how to enter the web 2.0 era. Now you can access our free e-lessons, the samples that can give you some details about the full e-courses, without registration.

• Medicine in Second Life, the virtual world: Meetings, presentations and education in the virtual world


• Medical Blogs: A channel for building an online image


• How to follow journals and sites?: RSS feed and trend trackers

Somehow medical professionals tend to order Medicine 2.0 Packages while patients do not. The mission of Webicina is to open the world of web 2.0 not just for doctors and nurses, but for patients as well. That's why we will dedicate the month of November to patients with new prices and opportunities.

Medicine 2.0 Package is a personalized set of web 2.0 tools designed to solve your problems. A package focusing on a medical specialty still costs 100$, but a package about a medical condition costs only 49$ now.

What do you get for your money?

Such a package contains all the quality blogs, blog carnivals, community sites, video sites, microblogging sites, search engines, slideshows and many many more tools/services/websites that focus on one medical condition or medical specialty.

After months of hard work, today we launched Webicina officially, an online service that aims to help medical professionals and patients enter the web 2.0 era.

Please register to get access to the free e-courses and to see what kind of services we provide.

The first steps of e-courses you can access now for free:

• What is Second Life?
• Inside the medical blogosphere
• How to keep yourself up-to-date?
• How to give a remarkable slideshow? (bonus material for the first customers who order an e-course)

And feel free to join the discussion about how to change the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered with web 2.0 tools.

We are working hard to get Webicina ready by the 7th of October. This Tuesday, after 6 months of work, we will launch it officially. We also decided to open the service for patients as well. That is why it's easy to say now Webicina is trying to build a bridge between e-patients and physicians.

The services we will provide:

• Consulting: presentations about web 2.0 and medicine in person; or online (webinars, Second Life workshops).


• Online Image Building Solutions: e-mail support for 3 months about the tools and methods medical professionals need to build a proper online reputation.


• E-Courses: materials and step-by-step tutorials through which users can learn to use the web 2.0 tools and methods they need. Premium account provides a 3-month access and e-mail support, while the Basic account does not include e-mail support.


• Personalized Medicine 2.0 Package: a personalized set of web 2.0 tools designed to solve the problems of physicians and health care workers. Membership includes one extended e-mail containing all the web 2.0 tools, services and information dedicated to a specific medical condition or a medical specialty.

Please join the discussion from the 7th of October!

We have received so many questions about our services, we had to release a FAQ page to make things clear.

Please let us know if you have questions.

After I presented Webicina, an online service that aims to build a bridge between physicians and e-patients.

Some prominent bloggers, for my great pleasure, wrote about it:

Introducing Webicina - “Practicing medicine in the web 2.0 era” (UBC Academic Search) - Also posted on Trusted.MD

Webicina: La medicina del futuro (Planeta Educativo)

the international council on medical & care compunetics

NextHealth

MartijnHulst.nl

Webicina - medicine in the web 2.0 era (The Daily Scan)

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