From a Medical Blog to an Online Service: A bridge between p (3)
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I’ve been preparing to write this announcement for months. Scienceroll is almost 2 years old and I thought it’s time to launch my online service. I’ve written hundreds and hundreds of posts about the impact of web 2.0 on medicine, healthcare, medical education and communication. I’m always saying e-patients would change the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered. And physicians of the 21st century must be qualified to meet their expectations. Now I’m ...
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mndoci said:
Can't think of too many people better than Berci to take on such a venture. Question is, can people sleep in negative units? I am convinced he doesn't sleep at all already :)
OutWit Hub: A Semantic Browser in Medicine? (2)
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OutWit Hub, currently in beta, might be a step towards a semantic browser. You can find more information here and the Firefox Add-on page here. The applications are countless from extracting photos of human anatomy in a snap, to building a database of medical contacts. If you need a list of hospitals with their specialties, you can use OutWit to grab this information automatically from Wikipedia and easily produce an Excel table out of it. ...
Unique Medical Simulation in Second Life! (2)
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We organize medical exercises and meetings at the Ann Myers Medical Center in Second Life. Now the e-Learning Faculty of Imperial College London created a spectacular and useful Second Life tool in medical education. Here are some screenshots that can describe what the learning process looks like. After teleporting to their virtual hospital, at the reception, you have to ask permission to see a patient. Wash your hands or you cannot even touch the patient. ...
5 New Additions to the Health 2.0 Squad (2)
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I’ve recently come across 5 services that may be useful for those interested in health 2.0. Healthcare Magic: HealthcareMagic is the world’s first portal allowing a live interaction between doctors and patients over Internet and phone, allowing integrated comparison shopping for health related products and services. HealthcareMagic enables patients, families and friends to share their experiences with a healthcare provider like doctors and hospitals, to research and purchase health care products and services with the ...
Medicine 2.0 Carnival at SharpBrains (1)
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The 30th edition is up at the SharpBrains blog! Check out all the posts and news about the world of medicine 2.0 and health 2.0. Thank you, Alvaro Fernandez, for hosting Medicine 2.0! Medicine 2.0 is a blog carnival about the impact of web 2.0 on medicine and healthcare. Medicine 2.0 editions so far: Edition #1: Scienceroll Edition #2: Scienceroll Edition #3: Medical 2.0 Edition #4: Healthline Connects Edition #5: The Health Wisdom Blog Edition ...
What’s on the web? (10 August 2008) (1)
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Grand Rounds: Change of the Guard (Blogborygmi): Nick Genes has been maintaining Grand rounds, the weekly medical blog carnival, for a long time now. It became a blog carnival that can collect the best medical posts week by week. Kudos to Nick! Why you, young scientist, should have a web presence (What You’re Doing Is Rather Desperate) ABC News’ seven-part series takes an intimate look at the men and women who call The Johns Hopkins ...
Web vs real life: Advice for medical student (3)
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There is an interesting article at news.ufl.edu about the web usage of medical students. This generation of medstudents is already on the web (Facebook, blogs, community sites, Twitter, etc.). If they think their web life doesn’t represent their real identity, they are absolutely wrong. An excerpt from a recent study: Thompson and several researchers from the UF’s colleges of Education and Medicine did a review of the Facebook sites of 362 UF medical students and ...
Google vs Wikipedia? No! (1)
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Google just launched its online encyclopaedia project, the so-called Knol. The whole blogosphere is talking about whether it can be a competitor to Wikipedia. Well, let’s put it that way: no, it can’t. An excerpt from their mission statement: The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews ...
GenePartner: Genetic Dating? (2)
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Are you kidding me? Do you remember ScientificMatch.com? Now GenePartner just launched its service: GenePartner is a formula to match men and women by analyzing specific genes in their DNA. At GenePartner we are dedicated to help you find your ideal life partner. Our formula is based on research on hundreds of couples and analyzes the pattern of genetic combinations found in successful relationships. Using this formula we will determine the probability for a satisfying ...
Web 2.0: A Movement Within The Health Community (2)
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Dr Iain Doherty (Director, Learning Technology Unit; Faculty Medical and Health Sciences; The University of Auckland) published a fantastic and comprehensive article in Health Care and Informatics Review Online about web 2.0 and health. And Scienceroll was mentioned: Web 2.0: A Movement Within The Health Community Pedagogy 2.0 and Health Education Medical and Health Science students are now utilising Web 2.0 tools. For example, undergraduate students in health, medicine and nursing have used a wiki ...
The E-Patient (2)
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Jan Martens at Medblog.nl shared a more than interesting post with me. He mentioned Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald who should be considered one of the best examples of e-patients in the world. Why? This is the blog of the journey I started on June 4th 2008 when I found out I had a tumor between my lungs. Its a journal for all to read, to stay informed and for me to share. his X-rays are online he ...
The Periodic Table of Videos (5)
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The University of Nottingham created an example for all the educators around the world. They constructed a series of interesting videos focusing on each element of the periodic table. Some videos: Helium: Arsenic: Oxygen: Follow their Youtube channel! What did they need to come up with such a unique project? 5 innovator educators and a video journalist of BBC. That’s how we can change education.
New Educational Tools in Second Life (1)
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In Second Life, we have some new tools and gadgets to work with at the Ann Myers Medical Center. I would like to share some examples with you and if you’re interested, I would love to be your guide inside the virtual world. Radiology room: There is a laptop with plenty of educational resources. If you click on it, you can choose which field you are interested in. Then you can access multiple websites focusing ...
Why Health or Medicine 2.0? (3)
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Some interesting statistics have recently been published. According to Pharma 2.0: 99% of physicians are online for personal or professional purposes 85% of offices have broadband 83% consider the Internet essential to their practice At The Deloitte Center, you will find even more details about the web usage of health consumers. Yes, there will be much more patients who seek health-related information on the web and who want to communicate with their doctors via e-mail ...
Medicine 2.0 Carnival: Summertime (1)
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Medicine 2.0 is a blog carnival devoted to analyze and describe the impact of web 2.0 on medicine and healthcare. If you think there are just a few posts written about this field of medicine during the summer, you’re wrong. I’ve got plenty of submissions. Let’s launch the carnival this time with articles on medical search. Medical search: Uri Ginzburg at Medical 2.0 presented an intelligent search engine. Allan Cho at Allan’s Library talked about ...
Big Think: The Future of Genomics (1)
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Big Think is a new service featuring interviews with famous experts about important topics. Here is a recent interview with Dr. Pardis Sabeti, Assistant Professor at Harvard University who focuses on the future of genomics: Some other interesting talks: The Dilemma of Organ Donation The Human Genome an Imperative Discovery Tool What is the state of global medicine today? Jimmy Wales: What are you thinking about?
