Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Editorials

How Web 2.0 is changing medicine

BMJ 2006; 333 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39062.555405.80 (Published 21 December 2006) Cite this as: BMJ 2006;333:1283

Rapid Response:

Cochrane Collaboration

In some respects the Cochrane Collaboration prefigured Web 2.0. Open
and collaborative in style, it employed the Web technologies available to
it at the time.

I wish though that it would make use of the technologies now becoming
available. But it is locked into a fruitless commercial publishing model
despite being almost entirely funded by the public.

Competing interests:
None declared

Competing interests: No competing interests

27 December 2006
Ben Toth
Health Perspectives Ltd
Canon Frome, UK HR8 2TD