The document discusses the challenges and opportunities of Health 2.0 and eHealth in Europe. It outlines problems with the current healthcare system like rising costs and a shortage of workers. Health 2.0 tools have potential to create more efficient systems but face obstacles to implementation. These include a lack of defined accountability, misinformation online, and a digital divide exacerbating health differences. The document proposes measures like removing barriers to Health 2.0, giving patients control of personal health budgets, and countering misinformation online while protecting personal information.

1. The New Dr-Patient Relationship in Europe Prof Arie C Nieuwenhuijzen Kruseman, internist President Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG)

2. What is the problem and is Health 2.0 the solution?

5. A paradigm shift is needed

6. People like innovation, not change

7. Change is in particular difficult as long as the users don’t see the benefits

8. eHealth and Health 2.0 have the potential to create more efficient, cost-saving and innovative Health Care systems

9. Published January 18, 2011

10. eHealth and Health 2.0 are tools. Whether or not to use is not the question. The question is how.

11. Health 2.0, it’s up to you; www.rvz.net

12. Dutch politicians are afraid of data sharing, while patients are complaining of health providers not sharing data enough

17. ‘ eHealth in beeld’