Pieter Leonard Kubben*, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands Henk Hoogland, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands Jim Cook, Surgical Neurology International, Rancho Mirage, United States Albert Jja Scherpbier, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands James I Ausman, University of California, Los Angeles, United States Track: Practice Presentation Topic: Web 2.0 approaches for clinical practice, clinical research, quality monitoring Presentation Type: Oral presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Building: MECC Room: Auditorium 2 Date: 2010-11-29 04:45 PM – 06:15 PM Last modified: 2010-09-22

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Traditional journals require subscription fees to access content. In contrast, open access (OA) offers free online access to journal articles. Therefore OA is suitable for sharing knowledge between all parts of the world, including developing countries for which regular subscription fees may be too high.

Surgical Neurology International (SNI) is a new OA journal that publishes about the latest developments in neurosurgery and related neurosciences. Because of its OA approach, SNI is webbased and therefore well suited to integrate the Web 2.0 philosophy in its core design.

SNI has a special section called "Neurosurgery 2.0". It allows all neurosurgeons worldwide to profit from that Web 2.0 philosophy. Authors can publish PubMed-indexed articles, but also discuss with colleagues on the forum on difficult cases and operative techniques. Besides they can share videos and write blog posts to share content and discuss there. Readers can be notified of updates by E-mail or RSS feed. Readers can easily share posts on Facebook, Twitter, or other social networks. Because all content including articles can be freely accessed by all neurosurgeons and residents worldwide, there are no financial limitations to spreading and sharing relevant knowledge.

Besides articles and regular Web 2.0 techniques, Neurosurgery 2.0 also offers decision support systems for desktop and mobile devices. These can be discussed and collaborated upon in the same Web 2.0 fashion as described. More important, by their interactive nature they offer quick access to relevant knowledge, especially in more complicated decision flowcharts. This facilitates bridging the "know-do gap".

Mobile access is not only relevant to the modern hospitals where busy physicians use smartphones for quick information access. It is also important for developing countries, where mobile devices are increasingly used as the first choice to access web content. Therefore Neurosurgery 2.0 has been set up to work on mobile devices as well. As far as possible, open standards (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and open source server-side techniques) have been used for Neurosurgery 2.0.

The goal of this presentation is to share experience in setting up and installing these Web 2.0 features and decision technology. There will be particular focus on some factors to consider before choosing a particular technique.