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Ubiquitous Information Therapy Service through Social Networking Libraries: An Operational Web 2.0 Service Model

Ubiquitous Information Therapy Service through Social Networking Libraries: An Operational Web 2.0 Service Model

Vahideh Zarea Gavgani
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466627703|ISBN10: 1466627700|EISBN13: 9781466627710
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2770-3.ch033
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Gavgani, Vahideh Zarea. "Ubiquitous Information Therapy Service through Social Networking Libraries: An Operational Web 2.0 Service Model." User-Driven Healthcare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 673-688. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2770-3.ch033

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Gavgani, V. Z. (2013). Ubiquitous Information Therapy Service through Social Networking Libraries: An Operational Web 2.0 Service Model. In I. Management Association (Ed.), User-Driven Healthcare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 673-688). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2770-3.ch033

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Gavgani, Vahideh Zarea. "Ubiquitous Information Therapy Service through Social Networking Libraries: An Operational Web 2.0 Service Model." In User-Driven Healthcare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 673-688. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2770-3.ch033

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Abstract

This chapter introduces a model for Information Therapy service through social networks. It discusses how health care providers including physicians, medical specialist and residents can prescribe reliable, evidence based health information to the patients in web 2.0 environment. How evidence based health information incorporated into freely available health information sources? How health information is disseminated to general public through collaboration of health information professional and health care professionals? How health literacy can be improved through social networking health information? And, how user driven health information is disseminated through web 2.0? Recent advances in Information and Communication Technology especially social applications of web 2.0 have given new possibilities and abilities to librarians in rendering better, faster and ubiquitous information services. At the same time, it has created an equivalent right to information for patients/care givers and health providers. Nowadays, the importance of availability and accessibility of health information in healthcare system is realized and emphasized by healthcare providers, policy makers as well as consumers. Provision of reliable, timely, evidence based, right health information to patients/caregivers/consumers in the course of Information Therapy is a necessity for National Health Systems in all countries. This chapter deals with the definition of Information Therapy, importance of information therapy, changes in the preference of information users on how to access right information, Web 2.0, application of Web 2.0 in rendering Information Therapy Service, and a proposal model for Information Therapy service through Web 2.0.

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