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Top 10 Entries of the Month August 16, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Scienceroll, Web 2.0.
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From now, I will frequently compile a list of the most visited, commented, retweeted entries of Scienceroll.com.

Science magazine and JoVE partnership August 16, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-Science, science, Video, Web 2.0.
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Science magazine and JoVE start partnership for joint video-publication. Here is the first joint video-article:

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Science, the journal of scientific research, news, and commentary published by The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and JoVE, the scientific video journal, announced that they have entered into a partnership for joint production and publication of scientific videos online. The purpose of the partnership is to enhance scientific articles published in Science through video demonstrations of experimental techniques.

Under the partnership, which is currently in its pilot phase, Science will select papers suitable for the video enhancement, and will identify author groups willing to help shape the video demonstrations. JoVE will then work with the authors to create the actual demonstrations, using the company’s platform for geographically distributed video-production. According to Stewart Wills, Online Editor at Science, direct, in-article video demonstrations should increase the value of Science research to its main audience, working scientists and students.

Read more in the press release…

PeRSSonalized Medicine: Your Own Medical Journal August 13, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.
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PeRSSonalized Medicine is a free medical information tracking tool that was designed for doctors and patients who don’t have time to learn to use RSS.  It only contains quality selected resources (medical journals, news sites, blogs, Twitter users, Youtube channels, etc.) and as we want to constantly update the database, please send your favourite medical resources to info at webicina.com.

After the positive feedback about PeRSSonalized Medicine, now it was time to launch different sections such as PeRSSonalized Radiology, Rheumatology, Neurology or PeRSSonalized Diabetes, Cancer, Depression,  and new sections will be published soon.

perssonalized medicine

Some reasons why it is unique:

  • You can search in the database. It means you will find medical information only from a quality selected portion of the world wide web.
  • You can personalize any of the sections.
  • You can also receive the newest Pubmed articles focusing on your search term. Just insert your field of interest, a therapy, a condition, etc. and click Search. Then you can add the newly created box to your personalized medical “journal”.
  • It’s meant to be a community-based project so we are open to submissions.

Human Atlas on iPhone August 11, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Anatomy, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Video, Web 2.0.
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Human Atlas V2.0 for iPhone was created by Blausen Group, creator of the award winning world’s largest library of medical and scientific illustrations and animations. They provide the material in 12 languages with 1200 images and 1500 glossary terms. I wish I had something like that when I studied anatomy.

Virtual Patients and Surgical Guinea Pigs August 11, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Surgery, Video, Virtuality, Web 2.0.
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I’ve been writing about the possible medical implications of virtual worlds for years. We do case presentations in Second Life and organize medical events in virtual environments almost for free. And now here are two more examples.

Dr James Bateman (Coventry & Warwickshire University Hospitals) talks  about how virtual patients can be integrated into simulation-based teaching.

Wired wrote about a tool I tried myself at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference in Long Beach, CA this year.

More about medicine in the virtual worlds:

Scientists on Twitter August 11, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-Science, science, twitter, Web 2.0.
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I’ve recently written a post about how you can find biomedical journals, medical students and doctors on Twitter, but here is a new database, Science Pond. Check out the health science-related Twitterers.

Welcome to the pond! For this Twitter experiment we’ll need science nerds of all stripes, including scientists, bloggers, journalists, educators, and students. The criteria for inclusion: on-topic feeds in English that are interesting and useful–to your peers at the very least. If you’re still not sure, this seems like the perfect time to quote Albert Einstein: “Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”

science pond

Similar lists:

  • Constantly updated list of biomedical journals on Twitter

Further reading:

How To Choose The Right Healthcare Plan: Video August 11, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Healthcare, Video, Web 2.0.
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The Stay Smart Stay Healthy Youtube group came up with a new video on how to choose the right healthcare plan. Simple questions, simple pieces of advice.

Basic healthcare plans are designed to protect your finances in the event of a major illness or serious injury. They dont cover smaller, out-of-pocket expenses like doctors office visits, and they generally cost less.

24 Reasons why Twitter sucks! August 10, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Slideshow, twitter, Web 2.0.
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I really like Twitter and consider it the number 1 or 2 channel for communication these days, but sometimes I realize it has numerous negative points. This slideshow sums these up perfectly:

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What’s on the Web: iPhone Medical Apps and Timetric August 10, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, twitter, Video, Visualization, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.
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The Healthcare Communications & Social Media community hosts a weekly Twitter conversation about communication and marketing practices by healthcare organizations, including use of social media. The Twitter conversation community meets on Twitter every Sunday night from 9pm/21:00 to 10pm/22:00 eastern US time. The Twitter hashtag for the conversation is  #hcsm.

heart murmur

I’m not making this up; it’s a wonderful thing. MassMEDIC, the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council, is looking at the future of “connected health” devices. They’ve got a survey that’s been given to all kinds of industry and policy people, and now, blow me down, they want patients to take the survey too.

Online vs Offline: Is Your Boss on Facebook? August 9, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Online image, Web 2.0.
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There is not a big difference, even if a lot of people think there is. I’ve written many posts about online image building and reputation management but here is a practical example why everyone should be more cautious about what they say online (just like they’re cautious about what they say offline).

Somebody posted a message about her job on Facebook. But the boss was also there…

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