Obama healthcare team and Second Life January 10, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Second Life, Virtuality, Web 2.0.Tags: Healthcare, obama, Second Life
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How many times have I tried to promote the educational opportunities Second Life provides?
Well, now the healthcare team of Barack Obama tries to see how such a virtual world could be used while reforming healtchare.
Draxtor Despres has recently participated in a community discussion on healthcare and looked at the potential:
Update:
AccessDNA: Know Your Genetics January 10, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in DNA, Genetic screening, Genetic testing, genetics, Genome, Web 2.0.Tags: Genetic testing, genetics, Genome
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I’ve recently discovered AccessDNA on Twitter and I thought I should give it a try. On the main page, it says I should create my personalized report. Well, let’s do so.
It asked me about the medical conditions that occurred in my family; environmental factors I have to face; tests I would be interested in, etc. And then I received the personalized genetic report; actually a list of genetic tests that might be useful for me.
What can I do with that information? Yes, of course I want full genome scanning. But should this be my decision? Not the decision of my doctor? Just beacuse I reported to be of Caucasian descent, I should order genetic tests that cost several thousands of dollars?
You know what? I would love to hear the opinion of Steve Murphy here. And yours!
VisualWikipedia and entries on drug information January 9, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Web 2.0, Wikipedia.4 comments
I would like to share 4 interesting articles mentioning Wikipedia with you. As you may know, I’ve been an administrator in the English Wikipedia since October, 2006 so I’m not saying I can be neutral when writing about one of the biggest online projects ever.
- Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of drug information on Wikipedia (The Daily Scan): Wikipedia is worse than Medscape Drug Reference. But of course it is. I’m still saying Wikipedia should never mention dosage-related information as this is an encyclopaedia created for laypeople, and if a doctor is interested in such information, they should look it up on a site managed by only medical pofessionals.
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Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway? (Silicon Alley Insider)
The bulk of Wikipedia is written by 1400 obsessed freaks who do little else but contribute to the site, says a post racing up the Hacker News charts. The post pulls this number from an essay Aaron Swartz wrote more than two years ago, based on some comments by Jimmy Wales.
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VisualWikipedia: VisualWikipedia is a visual, intuitive, and interactive web interface to encyclopedic knowledge/information. It is designed to provide a fun place to learn stuff in an efficient manner.
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New Wikipedia initiative should be a must for humanities journals too (Biomedicine on Display)
Further reading:
If you’re new to Twitter January 9, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, twitter, Web 2.0.Tags: Health, List, tips, twitter
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A few days ago, I was happy to discover Jay Parkinson, the co-founder of Hello Health, on Twitter and I thought I should help Twitter users who are new to Twitter but would like to join all those interesting health discussions.
1. Find a reason to use Twitter
2. Check what you have to know about Twitter
3. Find valuable people to follow:
- Health Tweeple to Follow
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100+ Scientific Twitter Friends (Sciencebase)
- Twitter Doctors, Medical Students and Medicine related (Medical Student Blog)
4. Make sure the people you follow are really valubale twitterers
5. Track your charts and work on to become a must-follow twitterer
6. Don’t miss a post at Twitip.com
7. Filter discussions by following numerous users but reading only the best discussions
8. Come up with ideas about how to implement Twitter into everyday’s healthcare or health management
9. Share your tips with us!
Add ScienceRoll Medical Search to your blog January 9, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Scienceroll, Scienceroll Search.1 comment so far
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.
Hope Leman has recently had a quite positive review about it at AltSearchEngines.com.
Now you can add this search engine to your website or blog just like Cleveland.com did.
You feedback is invaluable for us.
Further reading:
PageRank of Scienceroll: 7! January 9, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Scienceroll.7 comments
Just a short note about some great news. The new pagerank of Scienceroll.com is 7!According to Wikipedia, a pagerank is…
… a link analysis algorithm used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references.
Will it change anything?
Of course, not, but as it makes me even happier, there will be more posts today.
Stay tuned and thank you for the links!
Design the Future: Personal Health Cards January 7, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Innovation, Medicine.Tags: card, design, future, Health, personal
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Juhan Sonin has a great Flickr image set including a few images about the possible design of a personal health card that we could use in the future when visiting our doctor. No more papers, just a little card that the doctor’s computer can read easily.
Would you like to have such a card instead of papers?
Don’t do this at home: Self-intubation January 7, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Video.2 comments
I saw this video on Kevin, MD’s blog. Shocking. Do not try to do this at home. I mean it…
A similar video:
Dr. Levitan narrates this video as he performs nasoendoscopy on himself. The video highlights the anatomy of the upper airway
Scienceroll Search: Review January 6, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Scienceroll, Scienceroll Search, Web 2.0.5 comments
Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by Polymeta.com. 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.
Now one of my favourite writers, Hope Leman at AltSearchEngines.com, reviewed Sciencerollsearch.com and had positive thoughts on our search engine:
I was quite impressed with the drug information I was able to find on ScienceRoll. I tried out as my search term Riluzole, the only drug that seems to have any effect in extending survival for those with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and ScienceRoll very helpfully suggested, “Also Consider: Rilutek.”
I certainly found some excellent material on ScienceRoll. For example, if I were a nurse or health science student or simply a loved one of a person with a serious condition, I would try out ScienceRoll. It is a useful complement to MedlinePlus and indeed surpasses it in some ways in terms of comprehensiveness.
I’m so happy and I hope you will use and like the search engine. Your feedback, as always, is invaluable for us.
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