Medting

Medting is an internet social community tailored for clinicians to share their clinical cases and browse a disease atlas. Equipped with medical image software and videos, doctors may ask for second opinions, share cases or stock private ones for self-learning. All visual information may be shared embedded too. This is just an example:


Integration with PubMed for citation searching and a tagging system based on SNOMED CT allow users to collaborate and discover sound information.
It is surprising that such a venture is supported by a business model completely free for end-users (doctors), even if they are premium users. Advertisement in weekly email reports and a licensing system for organizations are the only two revenue streams.

doc2doc: connecting doctors worldwide

The British Medical Journal Group has recently launched a new initiative on the web 2.0 wave. doc2doc is an online community addressed to doctors worldwide although it is open to other health professionals. Forums and blogs are the first hosted features.
Scientific journals have increasingly adopted 2.0 gadgets into their sites such as RSS feeds, social bookmarkers and tags. Scientists, researchers and practitioners, as the main producers and consumers of scientific publications, may take advantage of 2.0-like communities to:
- Connect with peers
- Share knowledge and discovery
- Organise professional and research projects