The clinical professions are ambivalent at best concerning online consumer health information. The message here is that the horse is out of the barn. It's too easy to create social networking applications that leverage Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, and podcasts, and exploit their synergies with Web 1.0 technologies like forums and mailing lists, and now with Web 3.0 technologies like Microsoft's HealthVault and the nascent Google Health. These applications will interconnect health information consumers with birds of a feather, but also with commercial entities bent on exploiting the opportunities the social media make possible.
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