Hope Leman is a research information technologist for a health network in Oregon. She is also Web administrator of the grants and scholarship listing service, ScanGrants www.scangrants.com.

Hope is a 2009 graduate of the Master of Library and Information Science program of the University of Pittsburgh.

Interests: Science 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Health 2.0, Open Science, the e-patient movement, participatory medicine, the use of social media in medicine and on interesting, significant developments in science and medicine generally.

This presentation will cover the topics below. All of these movements will affect everyone in the world starting right now.

Science 2.0: A way researchers are beginning to harness wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 technologies that is transforming scientific activity.

Open Research: Research conducted in the spirit of free and open source software. If research is scientific in nature, it is frequently referred to as Open Science.

Open Notebook Science: This is a URL to a laboratory notebook that is freely available and indexed on common search engines. In the spirit of transparency, information used by researchers to determine their conclusions is made available to the rest of the world.

Medicine 2.0: Encompasses applications, services and tools for healthcare consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers.

Health 2.0: Resembles Medicine 2.0 but is more commercial in nature and has a greater emphasis on consumer-generated content in healthcare. Offshoots include participatory medicine and the e-patient moment.