"The trend that we are seeing in professional information is not all that different than consumer media," said Devin Wenig, chief executive for the markets division of Thomson Reuters.
Given the current (justified) fear that consumers' information could fall into the wrong hands, this practice has fallen by the wayside as people understand the implications and risks of sharing personal and professional information.
Here is her professional information on LinkedIn.
Enter educational and professional information.
We describe in this paper the CISMeF project (acronym of Catalogue and Index of French-speaking Medical Sites) whash has been designed to help the health information consumers and health professionals to find what they are looking for among the numerous health documents available online.
Information consumers and financial professionals are in a precarious position too.
cover information consumers provide on those pages.
The GAP includes a 'tool kit' of information developed by the WISH Study Group to aid in implementation [ 14, 20], including the NHMRC endorsed guidelines, educational materials including a PowerPoint for use in in-services, health professional and consumer information (Additional files 2 and 3), posters (Additional file 4) and reminder hospital record inserts (Additional file 5).
Google Health has partnerships with pharmacies (Google Health recently struck a deal with CVS), insurance companies, hospitals and labs to integrate data from medical professionals with consumer information.
Results of this study are expected to substantially contribute to policy review and development, health professional education and consumer information about alcohol consumption for pregnant women in the future.
Semantic Web approaches already used in the MedCIRCLE project could open up new ways for educating health professionals and consumers and reaching less savvy health professionals and consumers, because part of the intelligence and knowledge currently required to critically appraise information on the health professional or consumer Web site could be built into the search tools.
