Support for ‘Bald Barbie’ Campaign on Facebook January 24, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Cancer, e-patient, Facebook, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.add a comment
A Facebook campaign was launched a few weeks ago in order to urge Mattel to produce a bald version of its Barbie doll that will help children with cancer and others who have lost their hair due to illness cope with their conditions while playing. An excerpt from a recent article:
“We hope it gets the message out that being bald is beautiful and is no big deal. There’s no need to cover up,” she said.
Sypin’s own daughter is one of those children. The 12-year-old, named Kin Inich, lost her hair after chemotherapy.
Even though her daughter isn’t a huge Barbie fan, Sypin said she is excited about the idea.
“She said if they make one, she would totally get it,” Sypin said. “The first thing she said was if they make that doll, she would buy a bunch and take them to a children’s hospital and give them to children with cancer.”
Here is the Facebook page on which you can support this great idea!
PharmApps: Wiki of Pharma Mobile Apps January 23, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Mobile, Pharma, Web 2.0.add a comment
As the PharmApps site declares, it’s good that we have more and more pharma mobile apps, but it’s becoming increasingly hard to track them and find what we need. So PharmApps aimed at creating a database of these by using proper tags and categories.
We know that in this digital age, the best feedback happens when a broad group of individuals has the ability to upload and comment on content being shared for all to use and digest. We’ve built a resource, or wiki, that, by design, will grow through the input and insight of people interested in the healthcare marketplace, mobile technologies, and apps. The PharmApps wiki aggregates pharma/healthcare apps and gives users the ability to add comments, write reviews, rate apps, and share and upload new apps. The apps are categorized by branded, unbranded, audience, and operating system so users can easily sort through this growing resource. The site will continue to evolve, addressing ongoing feedback, new developments, and our collective learning along the way.
Personally, I still like this database as well.
From 9 Tablet Tips to the 15 Most Wired Hospitals January 23, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Hospital, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.add a comment
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association accents the limits of web-based health management tools that are currently available.
Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve studied the “Healthcare’s Most Wired” Health Providers from Hospitals & Health Networks and the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Hospitals for many years. It strikes me in 2012 that with meaningful use and patient engagement on the front-burner for providers adopting EHRs that a useful metric for these studies could be patient engagement.
The number of pedestrians injured or killed while wearing headphones has tripled in the last six years: 16 oblivious PMP users were offed in 2004, the number rising to 47 for last year.
- Hugo Campos challenged himself to eat only vegan meals throughout last December and took pictures of everything he ate or drank from an almond to a cup of coffee.
Nature documentary discovers pharma reps in the wild: Funniest video January 21, 2012
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One of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen. A “nature documentary” about how pharma reps attack their prey, the doctor…
Doctors 2.0 and You: Event of the year in 2012! January 20, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Conference, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.2 comments
A wonderful conference is coming up in Paris in May. The 2nd Annual Doctors 2.0 & You convenes on May 23 – 24 at the elegant Cite Universitaire in Paris. This conference will gather together international supporters of health 2.0 tools and Social Media to share ideas and practices from 5 continents. The program will examine how doctors and other healthcare providers, patients, and medical industry use social media, mobile apps and other Web 2.0 tools to connect and interact.
Please take a look at the distinguished speakers list.
I gave a prezi last year.
Topics include:
- Connecting the ePatient and the 2.0 Doctor
- Online Patient Communities
- Online Physician Communities
- Social Media and Personal Health Records
- Social Media Campaigns for Government, Hospitals & Pharma
- Mobile Apps for Chronic Disease
- Mobile MedEd
- Quantified Self
- Pharma Strategies & Partnerships
- Regulatory Issues
This is indeed a conference to attend if you are at all interested in International Social Networking in HealthCare. I will be a keynote speaker. I really hope to see you there! Early Bird Registration ends January 31st! Hurry and Register!
Please follow Doctors 2.0 on Twitter at @Doctors20 and #Doctors20.
Top 100 Sports Medicine Social Media Channels January 20, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Sport, Web 2.0, Webicina.add a comment
Webicina’s new Sports Medicine and Social Media collection features relevant and quality social media resources from blogs and podcasts to community sites, Youtube and Twitter accounts focusing on this specialty.
Here is my top 10 social media selection for Sports Medicine:
- Dr. Howard J. Luks`s Blog (blog)
- About.com Sports Medicine (blog)
- Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance (podcast)
- British Journal of Sports Medicine (blog)
- National Academy of Sports Medicine (Twitter)
- American College of Sports Medicine (Facebook)
- Karim Khan (Twitter)
- Evidence Based Medicine Guidelines – Physical and Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics (Mobile app)
- National Academy of Sports Medicine (Youtube)
- ScienceDaily Images (image collection)
And PeRSSonalized Sports Medicine, the simplest, free, customizable, multi-lingual medical information aggregator will let you follow these resources easily in a personalized way.
Feel free to share any of these resources and let us know if you think others should be added.
Have you joined the Society for Participatory Medicine? January 19, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Health, Health 2.0, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
The motto of the Society for Participatory Medicine:
Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners.
You should definitely join the Society for many reasons:
Thank you for your interest in furthering the cause of participatory medicine. Membership is open to any individual or organization who desires to further the goals of the Society for Participatory Medicine. The Society is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charity, so membership fees are tax deductible as allowable by law.
Membership Dues should never be a barrier to anyone eager to join. You can nominate yourself or someone else to receive a partial or full scholarship. Only Individual Memberships and Innovator Organizations can join online. All other companies and organizations must fill out the application form and fax or mail it to us.
Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction January 16, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine.add a comment
If you are looking for interesting articles and news on medicine 2.0 or health 2.0, find me on Twitter or on Friendfeed.
Internet in Medicine University Course: We are in the fourth semester of the first university course that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students.
Medicine 2.0 Collection: I maintain the biggest collection of links and posts focusing on web 2.0 and medicine.
Webicina.com is my service that curates medical content in social media for free fo medical professionals and e-patients.
PeRSSonalized Medicine is the simplest, free, customizable medical information aggregator covering over 80 medical specialties and conditions in 17 languages!
Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.
List of biomedical and scientific community sites: More than 30 communities with links, descriptions and screenshots.
List of Biomedical video sites: Almost 40 sites featuring scientific or medical videos and videocasts.
The most amusing medical story ever: How not to communicate new scientific information January 15, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, science.add a comment
I’ve recently come across the most amusing story of medicine I have ever read. A paper published in the British Journal of Urology describes how Professor G.S. Brindley demonstrated during a presentation in 1983 that vasoactive agents injected into the corporal bodies of the penis can induce an erection. He experimented on himself and well, showed the “results” live to the audience. A must-read, very funny story!
The Professor wanted to make his case in the most convincing style possible. He indicated that, in his view, no normal person would find the experience of giving a lecture to a large audience to be erotically stimulating or erection-inducing. He had, he said, therefore injected himself with papaverine in his hotel room before coming to give the lecture, and deliberately wore loose clothes (hence the track-suit) to make it possible to exhibit the results. He stepped around the podium, and pulled his loose pants tight up around his genitalia in an attempt to demonstrate his erection.
