Major health issues in the US: Data Visualization May 22, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Visualization, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
GE.com published a great visualization solution, Health Visualizer, that tells us what kind of major health issues Americans have to face today. When will the World Health Organization publish something similar but with global data?
The information here is based on a random sample of 100,000 patient records from GE’s proprietary database, and represents some of the conditions that commonly affect Americans today. The numbers and percentages aren’t statistically significant; they’re meant to represent general trends. Looking at the data in new ways like this can help us understand health and gain new insights about how to take better care of ourselves and the healthcare system.
Virtual heart pumps up the realism: Video May 22, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Anatomy, Medical education, Video, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
I wish I had such resources while studying anatomy years ago:
A few other resources:
The 2009 DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge: The Winners May 22, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.add a comment
Amy Tenderich at DiabetesMine organized a unique event again so the The 2009 DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge was a real success. Here are the winners.
Grand Prize Winner (10.000$):
Most Creative Winner (5.000$)
Kids’ Category Winner (2.000$):
Congratulations to all the participants and the organizers!
What’s on the web? (21 May 2009) May 21, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.add a comment
- 100 Publications Every Graduate Student Should Read (Epistasis Blog)
Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and UT Southwestern made history Monday. For the first-time ever, the hospital used the popular networking site Twitter to ‘Tweet’ during a kidney transplant. The hospital staff took note of every aspect of the labor-intensive procedure and blogged about it for the world.
- Asthma TV News Spot (Doctor Anonymous)
- Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance: “The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance is an organization founded to create and promote an ongoing and expanding dialogue around the many opportunities to use wireless technologies to advance the delivery of healthcare.”
Health Information Online: How to check the quality? May 20, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, honcode, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.3 comments
When I create Web 2.0 Guidance Packages on Webicina.com that contain all the web tools that focus on a specific medical condition or medical specialty, I always try to measure or determine the quality of health information. How can I do that easily? I have to find a third, neutral party that analyzes the quality of medical information website by website. This is the Health on the Net Foundation, or HONcode.
They have a plugin that you can install on your Firefox or Internet Explorer so whenever you are on a website it will let you know whether that site is accredited by HONcode or not.
Regarding this very important topic, I have 2 more articles and one slideshow to share with you:
- Patient’s Guide to HIPAA: How to Use the Law to Guard your Health Privac
- Trying to Measure the Quality of Health Information on the Internet: Is It Time to Move On?
New Feature of Labmeeting: Autocite May 19, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Computer, science, Web 2.0.2 comments
I’ve come across a great new feature, Autocite, on the blog of Labmeeting.
If you’re reading a document with a big long bibliography, you can copy and paste the bibliography into Autocite and immediately have a list of links to abstracts and full text for all the articles. Or, if you have a webpage of your own with a list of your own past published works, you can automatically convert the plain text list into the HTML that you would use to link to the abstracts so that people who read your page can more easily find things out about your work.
Let’s give it a try. It works quite easily:
1. Copy and paste the references on your website
2. Click Autocite
3. Preview the linked version of your citations
4. Copy and paste the HTML of the linked citations
Gene Genie blog carnival: New look, new concept May 19, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blog Carnival, Blogging, Gene Genie, genetics, Microcarnival, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
I’ve been organizing Gene Genie, a blog carnival about human genes and personalized medicine for 2 years, but it seems it gets harder and harder to organize such blog events. So I came up with the microcarnival idea which means we all can submit our favourite human genetics-related articles and posts and share those in real-time.
I created a Gene Genie Friendfeed room for this purpose. Please subscribe and let’s discover personalized genetics together.
Neurology 2.0: A free guide to web 2.0 for medical professionals May 18, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, Webicina.4 comments
Webicina, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service, just launched Neurology 2.0, a free comprehensive resource containing all the web 2.0 tools from quality blogs and communities to online slideshows and clinical cases that focus on the conditions and illnesses of the nervous system.
We have already published several packages for patients such as Diabetes 2.0, Depression 2.0 or Cancer 2.0; but Rheumatology 2.0 is the first and Neurology 2.0 is only the second one designed for medical professionals.
The table of contents:
- News and Information on Neurology
- Neurology in the Medical Blogosphere
- Neurology Blog Carnivals
- Neurology Podcasts and Interviews
- Neurology Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums
- Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed
- Neurology Wikis
- Neurology videos, animations and videocasts
- Neurology Mobile Applications
- Social Bookmarking
- Medical Search Engines
- Trend trackers
- Clinical Cases and Images in Neurology
- Slideshows about Neurology
Next week, we will release the first e-course that will contain several step-by-step tutorials about how to create and write a quality medical blog.
Our mission is to help patients and medical professionals how to use the web as efficiently as possible.
Please let us know which medical condition or medical specialty we should focus on next time.
Who will be the Next Top Doc? May 16, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.2 comments
ReachMD launched a great competition for medical students who compete against one another to advance through the regional rounds, quarter finals, semi-finals and the National Championship.
Next Top Doc is a classic question-and-answer thinking person’s competition -with a ReachMD twist. These questions will bring any healthcare professional back to their own days rounding the wards. Medical students from across the country compete for the $5,000 Grand Prize ReachMD Educational Scholarship.
Click here to listen to the material of the first regional round.
Scienceroll would love to be an organizer for a similar competition on Twitter.
