ItRunsInMyFamily.com: Create Your Family History March 14, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Innovation, Medicine, Web 2.0.2 comments
ItRunsInMyFamily.com seems to solve a major problem in healthcare. When a patient visits a doctor, it always takes time to register proper family history. But what if patients do this job well before going to the doctor and medical professionals only have to check its accuracy?
Genetics is known to play a significant role in many common diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Knowing your own family health history can help you determine your personal health risks.*
Our family health history tool makes it easy to 1- build your family pedigree, 2- enter in diseases that run in your family, and then 3- share your family health history report with your doctor.
The interface is clear and easy to use. The site provides patients with a secure tool.
I’m also happy to announce ItRunsInMyFamily.com is now partnering with Webicina.com, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service.
e-Zassi: A DNA Powered Medical Device Community March 14, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Community Site, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.2 comments
E-Zassi seems to be a quite innovative community site with a special mission:
Introducing e-Zassi ― the world’s first and only medical device Innovation Assessment and Collaboration Engine ― where the life science community comes together to securely analyze and discover synergistic technology and partners.
e-Zassi gives you the ability to analyze and thoroughly vet tech innovations via a simple, intuitive online interface.
Accelerate the commercialization of innovations by finding development partners who fit your exact requirements.
I’m really interested to see how medical professionals will use this new community site. Find more information on their Help page.
Build Your X-ray Risk Report March 14, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Radiology, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
You can calculate your X-Ray risk report on xrayrisk.com. Select what kind of scans you have ever had, select your gender, age and you get the exact dose, plus the possible cancer risk.
Keep in mind, the overall lifetime risk of developing an invasive cancer is 37.5% (1 in 3) for women and 44.9% (1 in 2) for men regardless of imaging history. These statistics are averages and do not predict what is going to happen to you. They do not take into consideration individual risk factors including lifestyle (smoking, diet, exercise, etc), family history (genetics) or radiation exposure. The majority of cancers occur later in life and the average lifetime risk of dying from cancer is 25% (1 in 4).
A nice tool that lets e-patients know more about what’s happening with them during medical tests.
Health News in Second Life: The Anatomy of Avatars March 14, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical Search, Second Life, Virtuality, Web 2.0.Tags: Anatomy, avatar, Second Life
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Editorial: Virtual conferences in Second Life (Buried Treasure)
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Neurocircuitry & Second Life for Health – A CIMIT Mixed Bag
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ROI in Virtual Worlds – Anatomy of an Avatar (Caleb Booker)
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The Reality of Second Life (Genome Web): A great article by Sandra Porter.
- Companies and 3D Virtual Worlds: one detailed analysis (Metaverse Journal)
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Searchable database of Virtual Worlds: Meta-Mole (Cybertech News)
And a great presentation by PF Anderson about medical librarianship.
Labtutorials in Biology: How to extract DNA? March 14, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Biology, Blogging, DNA.4 comments
A few days ago, I wrote about a new blog that focuses on tutorials about molecular biology. Labtutorials in Biology is going to be a unique blog providing step-by-step tutorials in molecular biology and descriptions that can be really useful for students.
The first posts:
Now the author, Bálint L. Bálint, posted new instructions:
USB Finger March 14, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Computer.3 comments
A Finnish programmer lost one of his fingers in a motor accident and the doctor offered him to build a prosthetic finger containing a USB drive. Check the Flickr photoset out.
Photo courtesy of Jerry Jalava (Flickr)
New TED videos March 14, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Ted Talks, Video, Web 2.0.3 comments
I thought I would share 2 new TED talks with you. TED is one of the most innovative conferences in the world right now.
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs — she’s got a dozen amazing pairs — and the super-powers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height … Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be.
What’s on the web? (13 March 2009) March 13, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.add a comment
- Where Do We Go from Here? A Health 2.0 Progress Report (mdng New Media):
By the same token, it is Meskó’s experience that many doctors would not be able (even unwilling) to hold up their end of the conversation even if a patient broached the subject. “Hungarian doctors always tell me they don’t have time for these Web things,” Meskó recalls. “This is quite ironic. When I tell them I have at least 180 medical blogs, websites, and journals in my RSS feed reader, they don’t believe me. For me, it means it will still take a few more years and a lot of additional work to persuade them to use these tools and to help them understand the main concept of Web 2.0.”
- Advanced Neuritis in PubMed (Laika’s MedLiblog)
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CBC Radio Interview on Twitter (Open Thinking)
- Natalie Jeremijenko: Environment Design (Seed Magazine)
- A great TED talk about the future of radiology (AcuteZorg.nl)
The reason why I blog and microblog March 13, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Medicine, twitter, Web 2.0.5 comments
I could tell you so many reasons why to blog or microblog, but here is one practical example. These days, I do clinical rotation in the internal medicine clinic and there was a strange case of a 16 year-old boy who had acute pancreatitis for the 6th time in 2 years. Doctors had no more ideas about the possible diagnosis.
I thought I should give it a try and ask what Twitterers thought about this case.
Now the latest idea is pancreatic microlithiasis.
Now dear readers and medical professionals out there: What do you think?
Web 2.0 is about feedback…
Further reading:
- If you’re new to Twitter
- Twitter And Health 2.0: A Visual Story
- 10 Tips: How to filter discussions on Twitter?
- Twitterview: The Future of Medicine in 140 Characters
- The Youngest Twitterer and the Future of Health Management
- What you have to know about Twitter
- Quality of Medical Information Online: A Twitter Discussion
- Twitter for Health and Medicine
- 10 Reasons Why I Use Twitter
- Tips and Tricks: Is Twitter reliable?
- Health Tweeple to Follow
- Twitter for Health and Medicine
- Omnee: An organic directory of Twitter users
Genetic testing with 23andMe and Navigenics March 11, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in 23andMe, Genetic testing, genetics, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.4 comments
Blaine Bettinger from the great The Genetic Genealogist blog shared his experiences with us about the genetic testing service of 23andMe. I shared my thoughts with you about the service of Navigenics a few days ago. Now you can compare the two reviews and please do let us know what you think about these services if you are a customer.
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Genetic Testing With 23andMe (The Genetic Genealogist)
