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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Open health media for open healthcare

Dmitriy Kruglyak, HealthTrain: The Open Healthcare Manifesto, Version 0.1, October 30, 2006.  (Thanks to Glyn Moody.)  Excerpt:

What is “Open Healthcare”?

The nature of the Internet as a means of disseminating health media is changing. The first wave of online technology enabled organizations to extend their topdown, “command and control” communication methods to a new channel. But a new wave of open publishing technology now enables any individual, with or without professional training, to communicate with global audiences to share health-related information and opinions.

This communication occurs through multiple formats, including blogs, podcasts, wikis, message boards, videocasts, collaboration, community and review sites, as well as other forms of social media and peer-to-peer services. This grassroots media continues explosive growth with or without permission or endorsement from established healthcare institutions....

There is a great need to declare and spread a strong argument for the benefits of open health publishing....

This Manifesto will help rally the early adopters of open
health media around a simple set of principles....

The open and democratic nature of the emerging new forms of health media is in the public interest and should be encouraged and promoted in every possible way....

PS:  The author seems unaware of OA repositories, OA journals, and the OA movement.