Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers
I am very proud to announce that my colleagues Ileana Lulic, MD and Gordana Brumini, Phd from Rijeka University School of Medicine and myself have published a new scientific paper. Title of the paper is “Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers” and it was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR).
JMIR is the leading peer-reviewed transdisciplinary journal on health and health care in the Internet age. It is top ranked as the #6 journal in the health sciences category (out of 57 leading journals) and #2 in the health informatics category (out of 20 journals). Most importantly, JMIR is an open access journal, meaning that you do not have to pay to access and read articles.
To read our paper just visit the following link: http://www.jmir.org/2008/3/e28/HTML
We have also summarized our findings in a slide show presentation which you can see below.
We would like to thank all the bloggers who participated in our survey and made this research possible.
Ivor Kovic
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It was unclear whether you included patient bloggers/chronic illness bloggers, or only providers in your survey. What was the definition employed of a “medical blog”?
Thank you for your comment. I encourage you to read the complete article. Slideshow only demonstrates maybe one third of the results. There were patients among our respondents, and if I remember correctly we also sent an invitation to you. Table 3 from our study reveals more regarding blog topics. Methods section should clarify all questions regarding our methodology.
Very interesting study, which provides new insights into the habits and motivations of medical bloggers. It was also interesting to compare the results to the study we conducted of health bloggers in 2006 and 2007. The number of bloggers saying they hide their identity was consistent with our (2007) findings (www.envisionsolutionsnow.com/healthblogosphere). Nice work.
Congratulation for the Medical Bloggers article. Great!!!
The platform we are running now, Medting, has some flash viewers (http://medting.com/external.php). We are seeing the interest of some bloggers to include medical content by using the flash viewers.
Next generation of medical blogging?