WSJ Features Health Focused Social Networking Today

OrganizedWisdom.com is featured in today's Wall Street Journal in Laura Landro's article Social Networking Comes to Health Care (subscription required).

From the article, which is subtitled, Online Tools Give Patients Better Access to Information and Help Build Communities:

"The social-networking revolution is coming to health care, at the same time that new Internet technologies and software programs are making it easier than ever for consumers to find timely, personalized health information online. Patients who once mainly through email discussion groups and chat rooms are building more sophisticated virtual communities that enable them to share information about treatment and coping and build a personal network of friends. At the same time, traditional Web sites that once offered cumbersome pages of static data are developing blogs, podcasts, and customized search engines to deliver the most relevant and timely information on health topics.

The same technologies are making it possible for advocacy groups, government agencies and health-care providers to update consumers on relevant health news and deliver personalized health-awareness messages, reminders and alerts to email accounts, wireless devices and mobile phones. Online collaborations known as wikis, which let different users jointly work on Web-based information such as photo albums and contact lists, are developing to help communities plan for public-health emergencies, such as fluwikie.com, a flu-pandemic planning site. Mainstream advocacy groups and government agencies are offering their own specialized health-information "feeds" to consumers, and even experimenting with three-dimensional online computer worlds that use surrogates known as avatars to let visitors interact."

We have big plans for 2007 at OrganizedWisdom.com as we build out our community, add new features to our site, and work with you to help people get better access to health information.  Thank you so much for your support with our launch this year and all of your great feedback.  We hope you keep sharing your great ideas, publishing your WisdomCards, and spreading the word. We couldn't do it without you!!!

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