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Health web science: application of web science to the area of health education and health care

In the western world, the characteristic age of the patient population who require the most medical support for longer durations is increasing. The current model for supporting health care is not sustainable for this greater need. Given that the web has emerged as a daily part of life for much of the western world, it may be one route to finding solutions that improve this situation. Commerce, education, entertainment and individuals have embraced the potential of the World Wide Web and seen revolutionary benefits in the way they operate. Indeed the users of the web have influenced the development of the web, co-creating it into the form that it exists today. This leads to the question of whether health provision and education, which have already started to move into the area of the web, create an environment in which individuals and communities become more responsible for their own health and treatment? With an been increased interest internationally in E-Health, Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0 and the recent birth of the discipline of Web Science, this workshop aimed to investigate the application of Web Science to health education and health care.
 This paper reports on the first Health Web Science Workshop which took place on June 15, 2011, at the WebSCi11 conference in Koblenz, Germany. The workshop aimed to lead a discussion about the application of Web Science to Health education and provision. This paper describes the papers presented, the arising discussion and the identified next steps.