Chris Paton*, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Malcolm Pollock, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Debra Warren, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Track: Practice Presentation Topic: Building virtual communities and social networking applications for health professionals Presentation Type: Oral presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Building: MaRS Centre, 101 College Street, Toronto, Canada Room: Auditorium Date: 2009-09-18 09:00 AM – 10:30 AM Last modified: 2009-08-13

If you are the presenter of this abstract (or if you cite this abstract in a talk or on a poster), please show the QR code in your slide or poster (QR code contains this URL).

The National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland in New Zealand has developed a Web 2.0 Health IT Knowledge base for the New Zealand Ministry of Health.

The knowledge base is being developed using the Drupal open source content management platform and uses Web 2.0 tools to facility communication, networking and knowledge sharing in the New Zealand health sector.

The website focuses on detailed user profiles of key decision makers and project leaders linked to Wiki documents about the projects the users are involved in. Users can update their profiles, collaborate on Wiki project documents and create blog posts to inform the network about news and updates to their projects.

In addition, the site has a discussion forum and social networking capability to allow users to find colleagues with similar interests and generate new ideas and innovations within the sector.