What’s on the web? (14 June 2009) June 14, 2009

• PubMed: What’s New and What’s Ahead: Shamsha Damani, M.D from the Anderson Cancer Center collected what’s new about Pubmed, the biomedical database.

• Digital Disease Detection — Harnessing the Web for Public Health Surveillance: New England Journal of Medicine opened up some space for web 2.0.

• Wikipedia: 5000 pages, fully printed

• Interview with Lee Aase (Ivor Kovic, MD): Lee Aase controls the online projects of Mayo Clinic.

• Keynote: Harnessing the Power of Social Networks

• More to Second Life than just sex

Jennifer Keelan, the Principal Investigator on the project, suggests that a major feature for users is the “relative anonymity where patients can seek out information and share health experiences in a safe environment. There is also a great potential for patients to “practice being patients” by virtually experiencing a mammogram or navigating a hospital’s virtual ward—they can gain insight into medical procedures and processes to become more informed.”