First crowdsourced health condition book by CureTogether February 13, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Community Site, eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, science, Web 2.0.Tags: community, curetogether, vulvodynia
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I presented CureTogether here a few months ago. It plans to bring together patients and scientists to create an open-source health research system. Now they are publishing the first crowdsourced health condition book created by the most active community. It means the book contains a lot of information on vulvodynia, a disorder of vulvar pain, burning, and discomfort:
- 190 women share stories, symptoms, and triggers
- Surprising data on co-morbid conditions
- Detailed comments on treatments by real patients
And! All proceeds from Vulvodynia Heroes go to fund the vulvodynia data community at CureTogether.org.
Before, I said CureTogether looked promising. Now I think it does work.
Medical Slang: Bury the Hatchet, Freud Squad and Hasselhoff! February 10, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Humor, Medicine.5 comments
Wikipedia has a great list of terms of medical slang. I just wanted to highlight a few of these to make you laugh…
- Bury the Hatchet – accidentally leaving a surgical instrument inside a patient
- Freud Squad – the psychiatry department
- Hasselhoff – a term for any patient who shows up in the emergency room with an injury for which there is a bizarre explanation.
- TEETH – tried everything else, try homeopathy
- UBI – “Unexplained Beer Injury”
Do you know more?
Health 2.0: Around the Blogosphere February 10, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.add a comment
I know we have a regular Medicine 2.0 blog carnival and a Microcarnival as well, but I couldn’t resist the temptation and will share a few articles with you. I hope you’ll enjoy.
- Twitter and Health Care (Intelligent Medicine Blog)
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HeartIT Launches website for patients to share medical images (The Daily Scan): The site is WebPax.
- Web2.0 Use Among Hospitals (Chilmark Research)
- The 101 Applications (The Mobile Health Crowd): A huge list of more than interesting links and descriptions.
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The State of Physician Social Networks (eHealth)
The Future of Human Health: Video February 10, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Innovation, Medicine, Video.1 comment so far
My favourite medical tech blog, Medgadget.com, presented this great series of videos.
Medical paternalism in House M.D. February 8, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Health, Healthcare, House, MD, Medicine.4 comments
Ewa Dobrogowska shared this interesting article with us on Twitter. I didn’t think I would ever see House, M.D. in a publication:
Medical paternalism in House M.D.
Mark R Wicclair, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh
The popular television series House M.D. is drawn upon to provide a critical examination of medical paternalism and how it is presented in the show. Dr Gregory House, the character named in the title of the series, is a paradigm of a paternalistic physician. He believes that he knows what is best for his patients, and he repeatedly disregards their wishes in order to diagnose and treat their illnesses. This paper examines several examples of medical paternalism and the means used to portray it favourably in the series. It is argued that the positive depiction of medicalpaternalism in the fictional world of the series does not apply in the real world. The paper also considers why a show that features a paternalistic physician who so blatantly flouts mainstream medical ethics might appeal to health professionals and members of the general public.
Further reading:
PeRSSonalized Medicine: Follow the latest PubMed articles easily February 8, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Invention, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.9 comments
PeRSSonalized Medicine is a free tool of Webicina.com that lets you select your favourite medical resources and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place.
Now you can also follow the latest Pubmed articles in your field of interest without going back to Pubmed again and again and doing a search for your favourite term. Make this process automatic with PeRSSonalized Medicine.
In order to save your settings properly, you have to register for free here to be able to add 4 personal Pubmed feeds to your account.
Feel free to use the search parameters that you usually use on Pubmed:
- (gene) AND (Somebody[Auth]): when you’re looking for a specific author
- (gene) AND (Journal[Jour]): : when you’re looking for a specific journal article
The aim is to help medical professionals how to track the medical literature as easily as possible.
Further reading:
- PeRSSonalized Medicine: 5 New Resources
- PeRSSonalized Medicine: A free tool to track medical information
- PeRSSonalized Medicine: What are your favourite resources?
- The Bridge: Do you want to change healthcare?
- Microblogging and Webicina.com
- PRWeb: Webicina goes forward
- Webicina.com: HONcode accreditation!
Medical Education in 2009 February 8, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Health, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medical Education Evolution, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.Tags: Education, Medicine
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How should medical education change in 2009? Unfortunately, I don’t have the answer but am trying to find sites and projects that could probably answer the question soon.
First, I will re-launch my university credit course focusing on web 2.0 and medicine in 2 weeks. I will also publish all the slideshows and try to persuade students to participate actively in this movement. I hope I can generate some discussions about how to reform medical education with this initiative.
Second, according to a Medscape article we will see a few changes in the near future at least in medical publishing:
Why is it, then, that medical publishers can retain copyright and limit access? Recently, pressure from proponents of the open-access concept has resulted in the emergence of some open-access publication models. For example, several publishers now allow full-text access after a defined period of time, such as 1 year after publication. Should physicians and their patients have to wait 1 year before access to important medical advances? I think not.
We need leadership to push for immediate, full-text access to all clinical literature and we need that leadership now. To paraphrase a mentor, “Knowledge [should] be in the domain of the seeker.”
Third, the Medical Education Evolution project is still active and looking for contributors. If you have a great educational site in mind, please add it here.
Fourth, the Meducation site can provide you with some great resources on medical education.
Fifth, you should also check out the Medical Education wiki.
Further reading:
Mayo Clinic: An Online Example February 5, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Hospital, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Online image, Web 2.0.9 comments
My fellow blogger friend, Keith Kaplan at Digital Pathology Blog had a great post about the new blog of Mayo Clinic.
Now Mayo Clinic recently announced the launch of its culture blog, Sharing Mayo Clinic, which provides an online site for patients and employees to share their stories about what makes Mayo Clinic unique.
There are some participation guidelines for people who wish to share content as well as instructions for employees that I think are applicable for any blogger who works for a corporation.
So Keith listed some reasons why Mayo Clinic is an online example:
- Mayo Clinic YouTube Channel
- Mayo Clinic Facebook page
- Mayo Clinic podcast blog
- MayoClinic.com consumer blogs and podcasts
Hospitals, clinics must have a properly designed and managed online reputation. And in order to build one, hospitals need to embrace the tools and opportunities web 2.0 can provide.
Do you think they are open to this?
The list created by Ed Bennett may help you answer the question: Hospital Social Network List
Second Life presentation this Saturday February 5, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Ann Myers Medical Center, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Second Life, Slideshow, Virtuality, Web 2.0.add a comment
Jason Young is a Geriatric Clinician and will give a slideshow about Improving Communication With Cognitively Impaired Patients this Saturday (the 7th of February) at 10:00 AM PST (Second Life time) at the Ann Myers Medical Center.
Here is the teleport link.
The slideshow is already up.
Television shows teach communication skills in internal medicine residency February 4, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, House, MD, Innovation, Medical education, Medicine.2 comments
The article of the day award goes to…
To address evidence-based effective communication skills in the formal academic half day curriculum of our core internal medicine residency program, we designed and delivered an interactive session using excerpts taken from medically-themed television shows.
We selected two excerpts from the television show House, and one from Gray’s Anatomy and featured them in conjunction with a brief didactic presentation of the Kalamazoo consensus statement on doctor-patient communication.
Our residents indicated that their understanding of an evidence-based model of effective communication such as the Kalamazoo model, and their comfort levels in applying such model in clinical practice increased significantly. Furthermore, residents’ understanding levels of the seven essential competencies listed in the Kalamazoo model also improved significantly. Finally, the residents reported that their comfort levels in three challenging clinical scenarios presented to them improved significantly.
