General Castello hosted a Conference on interactive Internet health initiatives.

-professionals of the Valencian Agency of health presented the latest actions in the web 2.0 environment

Castellon, July 2012.- the Office 2.0 the Valencian Agency of health, the Ministry of health, the Valencian society of medicine family i Community (SVMFYC) and Area scientific Menarini organized on 15 June in the General Hospital of Castello the day health 2.0 times: If now ”, in which there have been initiatives on health interactive online.

The director-general of planning and healthcare, Guillermo Ferran, has been commissioned to inaugurate this meeting with the Manager of the Departament of Salut of Castello, Elvira Bosch, and responsible for international relations of Menarini, Isabel Betoret.

Are becoming more citizens consulting healthcare information on the Internet and we, as responsible for their health, we must assure contents safe and reliable, as well as take advantage of new technologies to establish new channels. These technologies contribute to improving care and maintain the good health of the patients, something that we are already seeing with the telemedicine and care for chronic patients ”, Guillermo Ferran commented.

En el seno del Departament de Salut de Castelló se están llevando a cabo diversas iniciativas de humanización de la asistencia sanitaria e información al paciente a través de su Web 2.0, como la que desarrollan los profesionales de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria del Centro de Salud de Almassora.

It launched earlier this year, is a web with advice to the population to avoid unnecessary visits to the emergency room, because there is a very high saturation, with more than 3 of every 10 considered unnecessary ”, according to Paul Sendra, head of communication of the Health Department, Castello.

The next step will be the evolution of this website “to an interactive space where patients can ask if your problem requires to go to an emergency room ”.

“Another of the projects promoted by this Department in health 2.0 is the web of dexmedetomidine in the General Hospital of Castello, where share clinical cases, which has had close to 100,000 hits.

Nurses and nurses also used the health 2.0 to share knowledge, such as the web cuidados20.san.gva.es, launched by the Department of health, and in which social media play a key role.

The promotion of healthy habits, as exercise, online and social media, combat the sedentary lifestyle and reduce the occurrence of chronic diseases, as concluded from various studies that they have also discussed at the meeting. It has been the first national programme to promote physical exercise through the Internet and social networks, the @ clubdelpaseo, created by a Valencian nurse.

A study published last month by the Faculty of sports science of the University of Extremadura in the Magazine Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine shows that the implementation of a program online to teach postural exercises reduces “the risk of chronic low back pain” in the Office workers, and improves their quality of life.

En España hace dos meses que se puso en marcha el @clubdelpaseo, una iniciativa del bloguero Xavier Gómez, enfermero del Centro de Salud El Puig, de Valencia. It’s a method based on social media and the Internet to promote health in an entertaining way through physical exercise moving (walking, running, skating, go biking, etc.).

At that time, its members have traveled 5,000 miles, and has begun to spread to other countries ”, explains Xavier Gómez.

The Valencia health agency is a pioneer in health 2.0, with his own Office, which supports patients to give up unhealthy habits over the Internet. “The Coordinator of the same, Miguel Angel Mañez, stands out the web for patients www.cuidatecv.es, that promotes self-care through videos, games and interactive tools”.

Are becoming professionals who “recommend web pages to their patients in order to clarify doubts, improve adherence to treatment, avoid mistakes and reduce unnecessary visits,” according to this expert in health 2.0, although, in his view, “ideally the patient can communicate with the professional treating before””during and after the consultation”.

Other professionals in the health sector are also adapting to the new 2.0 environment to support research on health and reduce administrative procedures. Paula Traver, librarian and documentarian of the hospital Provincial consortium of Castello is a pioneer in this area, with SocialBiblio, a community of open and collaborative practice for learning the latest tools of information management ”.

This specialist encourages the optional to use tools online selection, distribution and classification of the information ” with the aim of fostering collaboration between professionals and improve healthcare.