Phil Baumann provides an overview on Google Wave and asks if the underlying technology offers any glimpse into improving clinical collaboration?

Andrew Spong ruminates about Google sidewiki and whether pharma will engage in debate regarding comments added to drug information websites.

The TRIP Database (Turning Research Into Practice) is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. Hope Leman interviews one of the founders of the TRIP database, Jon Brassey.

Ed Bennett reports that over 400 hospitals in the U.S. are now using some form of Social Media.

Social contagion is of great relevance to health and was a central topic at the Health 2.0 conference last month.

The world is becoming increasingly mobile. Several consumer aggregator applications presented at the Health 2.0 conference are focused on "on-demand" information and will enable patients to harness their medical data.

Keeping with the meme of essential medical software and "core apps", Rob Fraser describes his physical and virtual desktop.

Dr. Ves Dimov spotlights Google Squared and provides an example of its use as a tool for medical educators to build and share their own squares.

Influential bloggers reassuring patients, community leaders petitioning for a cause, crowdsourcing ideas for health, sharing stories to raise awareness … these are just some of the methods used by a new generation of patient opinion leaders.

Physicians, like health consumers, rely heavily on search engines. Although Wikipedia entires often appear at the top of organic results and are frequently the first reference reviewed, doctors should be concerned about accuracy.

In the midst of the swine flu outbreak, Laika examines whether Twitter is a reliable news source or just hype and useless for finding accurate information.

Decreased mortality is one of a number of benefits of health literacy. While health 2.0 empowers the next-generation of healthcare consumers, we shouldn't forget about the other half of the problem.

A free tool that lets you create your own "medical journal" and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place.

Ed Bennet catalogs 150 U.S. Hospitals that use YouTube, Facebook or Twitter (includes links to each resource).

What is healthcare doing with micro-sharing platforms such as Twitter? Phil Baumann has 140 suggestions.

The Medical Student Blog provides a comprehensive list of doctors, medical students and medicine-related tweets and blogs/websits.