Nowadays there are many kinds of social software, and, in my opinion, the best ones are those that are focused on a subject, like launchpad, flickr or last.fm, in comparison to those that aren’t, like Orkut or Facebook.

What I haven’t seen, and I’d like to see, is a social website for health care.

Nowadays we have to visit a number of health care professionals for many reasons. But, unfortunately, it is very difficult to get the whole picture of your health. It looks like your doctors are only interested in a small part of your body. And that can be very frustrating.

So, this health care social software would put together doctors and patients. The center of each network would be a patient. He would allow his doctors to read his clinic history. Every doctor would know all the treatments a patient is following and has followed and ho is prescribing this treatments and why. Doctors would be able to discuss among them and with the patient (the patient shouldn’t be able to read doctor’s discussions if not allowed by them).

Of course, patients that suffer of the same illness could join groups to discuss and learn from each other’s; doctor’s should be able to do the same with colleagues that treat similar cases.

The whole site, should be built, having language diversity in mind.

I think, that a system like this one, would help to get the whole picture of health problems and to improve everybody’s health.

Update (2007-06-15): I think this post from the Official Google Blog is relevant: Is there a doctor in the family?

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