Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios: A Walk On The Virtual Side

Commentary on the future of health information technology and its effects on society and culture, especially with respect to the future of biomedical research informatics, from an informatics practitioner-researcher in the U.S. academic health center clinical research informatics community. What's it all about? The Long Tail, social networking and network visualization tools, folksonomies, cool health IT innovations, serious games, scenario planning... Always In Beta.

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December 06, 2006

A Walk On The Virtual Side

Forbes.com has a story about the growing popularity of Second Life among major corporations. Now here is a killer application of the Second Life technology: international business meetings that don't incur the time and expense (not to mention danger and sheer boredom) of travel.

Link: A Walk On The Virtual Side - Forbes.com. A taste:

About 40 real-world companies have established beachheads, more for pumping up the “cool” factor of their brands than for moving real products. Sony BMG, the music label jointly owned by Sony Corp. (nyse: SNE - news - people ) and Bertelsmann AG, has a spot where musicians perform. In November, IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) opened big sites; the president of Nintendo of America has been making the rounds as well.

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