This one-day seminar covered introducing social media, web-based interventions, and technologies for participatory health. The program included sessions on introduction and background, participatory health research, social media, self-monitoring, web-based interventions, and a workshop on implementing IT in clinical practice. A panel discussion was held at the end of the day. Presenters included professors, PhD candidates, and doctors from the General Practice and Primary Health Care Academic Centre and Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre.