ITdotHealth is using the Google knol as a knowledge creation and management tool. We chose this approach after a successful use of knols for rapid research exchange on the H1N1 influenza by the Public Library of Science at PLoS Currents Influenza.
The ITdotHealth knols website enables creation, collaboration on, and publication of early stage manuscripts devoted to healthcare information technology (HIT). At this stage, we invite participants from the Health Information Technology Platform meeting at Harvard to edit and comment on existing knols, and to submit new ones. After the initial stage, we will broaden the reach of the effort.
