Web 2.0 and Autism on Webicina August 31, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.add a comment
Autism is getting more and more attention online and it was a pleasure to collect the best resources and web 2.0 tools focusing on this medical condition on Webicina, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service. Autism 2.0 is a free comprehensive resource containing all the web 2.0 tools from quality blogs and communities to online slideshows and mobile applications that families dealing with autism can use in their health management.
Please take a look at the table of contents:
- News and Information on Autism
- Autism in the Blogosphere
- Autism-related Podcasts and Interviews
- Autism-related Community sites, Facebook groups and Forums
- Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed
- Autism Wikis
- Autism Videos, animations and videocasts
- Mobile Applications
- Second Life, the virtual world
- Social Bookmarking
- Medical Search Engines
- Slideshows about Autism
We also published PeRSSonalized Autism which is a new category in PeRSSonalized Medicine, the easiest medical information tracking application.
Next week, we will release a Web Guidance Package dedicated to surgery.
What’s on the Web: WolframAlpha, Evernote in Medicine August 30, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.1 comment so far
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20 ways Surgeons should use Evernote (AppleQuack): And here is a screencast about how to use the new version.
- Attending a virtual conference—and what it tells us about the future of scientific communication. (SEED)
- Web 2.0 revolution underway in healthcare (eHealthInsider)
Titled ‘Web 2.0 in the Health Sector: Industry Review with a UK perspective’ the report concludes that new applications based on social health networks and content generated by health service users themselves – such as reviews of doctors and hospitals – will rapidly evolve to challenge existing healthcare systems and create new ways of delivering our healthcare.
- Medical Uses of Wolfram|Alpha (Brian Ahier): I shared my thoughts with Brian on the medical uses of WolframAlpha:
He said “I use WolframAlpha because sometimes (if I know exactly what I want to find) it saves me plenty of time and clicks. If I want to calculate BMI, Google lists me several calculator. WolframAlpha calculates it itself.” He continued, “If I want to find information very fast about a clinical marker, Google gives me resources, WA gives me the best answer in one click. I also use it for ICD classification, as it’s more easily accessible than Wikipedia; for epidemiological data and other calculations.
To sum it up, I think WA is for those who perfectly know what they want to find and want to save time and clicks. For other search queries, Google still is the best.”
- AccessDNA has a new website:
How to Use the Journal/Author Name Estimator August 30, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-Science, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
Onw of the most useful tools I’ve come across recently is the Journal/Author Name Estimator. There are mainly 3 ways you can use it.
1) For authors:
If you’re about to submit your manuscript but don’t know which journal would be the best target, it helps you. Just insert your abstract or keywords and find the most suitable journals.
2) For editors:
When you receive a manuscript and have no idea which reviewers you should send it to, JANE helps again as it can list authors who might be experts in the field the manuscript was written in.
3) For people seeking collaborators:
It can help you which authors could be considered potential collaborators for your project.
Webicina: Presented by a Medical University August 30, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in PeRSSonalized Medicine, Video, Web 2.0, Webicina.2 comments
The University of Debrecen, Hungary was founded in 1538 and has now over 30,000 students. So it’s a great honour for me that the website of this prestigious university presented Webicina.com, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service.
Bertalan Meskó, medical student of UD added an internationally unique “press cutting” service to his medical webpage, Webicina.com.
According to a survey, the number of patients using internet is steadily increasing, while the proportion of internet literate doctors does not show any increase. To fill up this gap, UD student Bertalan Meskó launched a new online application at the Webicina.com webpage, available free of charge for both patients and doctors. The webpage gathers professional medical information by considering quality marks, and the intensively increasing stream of news can be easily followed from now on with the help of a free service called PeRSSonalized Medicine (http://www.webicina.com/perssonalized).
The web application helps doctors’ work and e-patients’ browsing by mapping authentic online contents. The PhD student carries on his “online missionary work” too; he is going to start the world’s only online medical course for the third time in September. Following the example of his course American and Dutch universities are also going to launch netmedicine courses in the future.
Searching and Comparing Hospital Websites August 30, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Hospital, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.2 comments
In the future of healthcare, we can access any kind of information we need for our health management. When we have a medical condition, usually it’s not that easy to find the best hospital for the best treatment. WebMD has an interesting tool, Medica. You choose a diagnosis or procedure, give an explanation, choose a city and it helps you find hospitals that might be of your interest.
Ed Bennett updated his custom Google Custom Search Engine with over 2,800 hospital websites. It’s very useful when you want to find hospitals and centers that are focusing on a specific medical condition.
DIY ECG at Home August 29, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Invention, Medicine, Technology, Video.3 comments
Medgadget shared an interesting project about a home-built ECG system.
Although several DIY ECG guides exist on the internet, this one focuses on minimizing the part count and cost by performing noise reduction (normally handled by complicated analog circuitry) digitally with your computer. The device hooks up to your chest (using pennies as electrodes) and outputs to the microphone jack of your computer sound card so it can be recorded with free audio software. In addition to a description of how to build and use the DIY ECG, this guide also provides the code needed to perform complicated long-term heart rate and heart rate variability analysis to assess neurological control over cardiac function!
Telestroke at Mayo Clinic August 29, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Telemedicine, Web 2.0.add a comment
Telestroke enables emergency video consults about serious neurological issues. If you want to learn about projects and experiences of the Mayo Clinic in the field of telestroke, Medting helps you. Register here.
Bart M. Demaerschalk, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Director Cerebrovascular Diseases Center
Associate Professor of Neurology
Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases
Division of Critical Care Neurology
Department of Neurology
Mayo Clinic Hospital
Phoenix, ArizonaDr. Demaerschalk has wide experience in Teleictus projects and Telemedicine networks, particularly with the launch of First International Teleictus Network.
Finishing Medical School August 28, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in About me.14 comments
I think I owe you an explanation why there haven’t been new entries in the last few days. I had to study hard and pass the written and oral state exams. It means, after 6 years of hard work, I finished medical school.
I’ve always wanted to become a researcher and I went to medical school because I wanted to focus on clinical genomics, a field where the medical perspective is really useful. That’s why I will become a PhD student from October instead of residency and my research topic is personalized genetics.
I remember how much I hated anatomy lessons, then pharmacology, but now it’s time to focus on something I plan to dedicate my life to: personalized medicine.
I will get my medical license and diplome on the 19th of September and a new design of Scienceroll.com will also be installed by that time.
Radiopaedia on iPhone August 28, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Radiology, Radiopaedia, Web 2.0, Wiki.4 comments
Radiopaedia is the best radiology-related wiki and maybe the most comprehensive and active medical wiki as well. I’ve written about it many times, so it’s a pleasure to announce that the first Radiopaedia Radiology Teaching File is now available for download (free) from the itunes appstore.
50 central nervous system cases containing 170 images, questions and detailed text.
The next volume will be dedicated to the abdomen.
Google Wave for Scientists: Video August 23, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Collaboration, Google, science, Video, Web 2.0.9 comments
Cameron Neylon posted a nice video about how scientists may use Google Wave in the future. I saw it myself in action at this year’s Science Foo Camp in San Francisco, but it would be nice to have a really huge base of early adopters soon.
