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E-patients will shape the future of medicine: Slideshow March 27, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Innovation, Medical education, Medical Education Evolution, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Slideshow, Web 2.0.
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Here is the slideshow I presented at the AcuteZorg.nl Health 2.0 event in Nijmegen, The Netherlands on the 24th of March, 2009.

Health On The Net Foundation: Opening to Web 2.0 March 26, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Health 2.0, honcode, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.
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The Health on The Net Foundation is a Swiss, non-profit organization that promotes and guides the deployment of useful and reliable online health information, and its appropriate and efficient use. Now it has a new, clearly designed website:

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And they also created a questionnaire:

The Internet is a dynamic and ever changing tool, with almost daily additions to its functionality, offering an increasing array of tools.

One such tool is the Web 2.0 which has caught on very rapidly and is now a feature of most health websites, providing users with the ability to interact with each other.

We have developed a beta version of the HONcode to meet the new requirements demanded by the Web 2.0. As is our policy, we require your opinion and comments to help consolidate the new version and thus, we request you to take a few minutes to fill our questionnaire which will help us in the improvement of the HONcode.

Search Grant Information! March 26, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical Search, science.
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A short post about a great improvement. Novo|seek now lets you search grant information from more than 75 institutions.

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FluTweet and Twitter Tips for Clinical Trial Recruiters March 26, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, presentation, Slideshow, twitter, Web 2.0.
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First, here is a slideshow about 140 Healthcare uses for Twitter:

Second, TwiTip came up with a nice list of suggestions for clinical trial recruiters about how they should use Twitter. One of the suggestions:

Create a resource list of your new Twitter friends who’ve successfully re-tweeted and help spread the word on your study. Use Tweetdeck or Twhirl to follow all Twitter feeds in one place. Thank your followers and invite them to help out on the next study. More than likely, these Twitter users know someone or are affected by the very disease you are studying and have very personal and heartfelt reasons to get involved.

Third, FluTweet is an interesting application for tracking flu epidemics with Twitter.

FluTweet uses fresh Twitter data to track global flu epidemics. Tracking is based on counting tweets that contain flu-related keywords, such as flu, influenza or sore throat. Prevalence of those keywords should correlate with flu activity, since people often tweet about their flu or flu-like symptoms.

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Further reading:

TEDMED 2009: Conference of the Year March 26, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Conference, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.
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Maybe the best, but certainly the most innovative, medical conference will take place in San Diego between the 27th and 30th of October. TEDMED 2009 will present many world famous speakers from Craig Venter to Aubrey De Grey.

The fifth in a series created by Marc Hodosh and Richard Saul Wurman, TEDMED celebrates conversations that demonstrate the intersection and connections between all things medical and healthcare related: from personal health to public health, devices to design and Hollywood to the hospital.  Together, this encompasses more than twenty percent of our GNP in America while touching everyone’s life around the globe.

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You can register now. I wish I could make it.

Not Finally, but Another Practical Use for Second Life March 26, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Second Life, Video, Virtuality, Visualization, Web 2.0.
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Read Write Web wrote about a great idea that now works in Second Life, the virtual world.

The software, Glasshouse by Green Phosphor, lets you take data from either a spreadsheet or database query and place a 3D representation of it into a virtual world environment where it can then be explored interactively. Users are inserted into the virtual world as an avatar which can then manipulate the visualization of the data by drilling down into it, re-sorting it, or even just spinning it around to see it from all angles.

Here is the story in video:

Of course, there are many other practical uses for Second Life:

Celebrating Case Reports: Academic Meeting by Cases Network March 26, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medical case, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.
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Cases Network, one of the best clinical case collections, is hosting an interesting event at the Royal College of Physicians in London on 15th May this year, and has a great line up of speakers.

The meeting is chaired by the Editors-in-Chief of two case report journals, Richard Smith and Professor Michael Kidd. Sir David Weatherall will be the keynote speaker.

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Unfortunately, I cannot make it, but would love to hear more about, for example, these presentations:

Patients and the future of health care

  • Health Talk Online: Ann McPherson (Medical Director, Health Talk Online)
  • Web 2.0 and the future of health care: Paul Hodgkin (Founder and Chief Executive, Patient Opinion)

Missing Frames: How many different videos can you recognize? March 26, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Art, Video.
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I met Jiayi Young who is an artist/physicist this January at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17 conference. She promised me to upload the video that I saw in person:

This video is multitasking challenging game. This project challenges the brain to process more and more information simultaneously, while providing less and less cohesive information.

Video #1 is a combination of two different videos rapidly switching frames from one video to the other; each is missing 50% of its frames. The frames of the two videos are essentially zipped or shuffled together into one, asking for the brain to respond to both stories.

Video #2 ups the anti by combining three different videos, rapidly switching frames from one video to the other. Video #3 would require four videos, etc. So on and so forth; there are a total of ten videos.


Depression 2.0: A Medical Web 2.0 Guidance Package for Patients March 25, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, Webicina.
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Webicina.com is my service that aims to help medical professionals and patients enter the web 2.0 era by providing them with e-courses, consulting and personalized packages.

I made the newest Webicina package public yesterday at the Dutch Health 2.0 Event. This time, it focuses on depression. All the selected, best web 2.0 tools such as depression blogs, blog carnivals, wikis, podcasts and many other examples.

As this is a totally free service, please share your suggestions with us!

Check out the table of contents:

      Further reading:

      A Journey of a Real E-patient March 25, 2009

      Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Slideshow, Web 2.0.
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      Yesterday, I attended the Health 2.0 event in Nijmegen and saw the presentation of Maarten Lens-FitzGerald who I wrote about a few months ago. His story is more than fascinating.

      I finished my slideshow with saying: E-patients will change the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered.

      I believe, Maarten is the perfect proof for that:

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