HealthNex: Collaboration Confederation: The Blogposium Starts Tomorrow

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Jack Mason, IBM Strategic Communications, HealthNex Producer

Starting tomorrow, the Blogposium will take place across more than a dozen healthcare-related blogs for three days, with the vital help of hundreds of readers as co-collaborators.

Our goal: to turn our individual blogs into a "collaboration confederation" that will work together to add dozens of new entries to the Clinical Informatics Wiki, an extension of the Clinical Informatics Review.

Your challenge: starting tomorrow, our blog posse will post draft entries for the ClinfoWiki, on a range of subjects. The role for readers is to be active editors. On Tuesday and Thursday, please offer your coments and suggestions on ways that these wiki subjects can be improved, expaned and refined.

The Blogposium has already picked up some nice mentions, including one in The Business Innovation Insider, the fine blog launched in conjunction with last year's FORTUNE's Innovation Forum.

This experiment in collaborative, participatory blogging depends on people taking an active role in shaping the future. In that sense it echoes what my colleagues and I think will characterize the future of healthcare: the emergence of a new era of patient-centric care. This blend of new technologies and policies will help us reorganize healthcare to benefit its core constituents, we the patients, and arm all of us with new knowledge and tools to become more proactive about our health.

In the meantime, tell two friends about the Blogposium and tune in, starting tomorrow, to sample our first drafts for blogging history.

Blogposium Participants: (It's not too late to register! Thanks to Healthcare IT Guy Shahid Shah for setting the page up.)