Walking Humanoids November 5, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Robotics, Technology, Video.2 comments
Medgadget reported about the walking humanoid, PETMAN, developed by Boston Dynamics. I have never seen such a realistic movement from a robot.
I tried to find other similar videos just to highlight the difference:
And a walking robotic dog:
PeRSSonalized Epilepsy: Follow Quality News and Resources November 2, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.add a comment
I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place.
Now here is the newest category, PeRSSonalized Epilepsy with all the quality news sites, blogs, peer-reviewed journals and web 2.0 tools focusing on epilepsy.
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 is a community-based project. Please let us know which quality resources should be added to the database.
Social Search Makes It Easier November 1, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, eHealth, Google, Health, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course.add a comment
Do you remember Personas that visualizes the map of your online presence? Here is a better solution. From one point of view, it’s great to have such a useful tool as Google Social Search. A short video about what it is and how it works.
Social Search taps into a user’s social network profiles and displays relevant links and status updates that members of a user’s own social network have shared at the bottom of the default search results page. According to Google, Social Search will enhance the search experience on Google by providing users with more personally relevant search results.
From another point of view, it becomes even easier to find inappropriate content about us online. We know medical students sometimes breach patient privacy on Twitter, Facebook. We know doctors sometimes get sued because of their blogs. I think it’s not their fault. I think this crucial issue must be included in medical education. For example, in my “Medicine and Web 2.0” university credit course, there is a slideshow dedicated to the topic (how to avoid such issues).
We have to let doctors and students know about it. And not for the reason that patients will find these pieces of information easier from now via Google Social Search.
Virtual Worlds in Medicine and Healthcare November 1, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Second Life, Slideshow, Virtuality, Web 2.0.7 comments
I just published a summary about the last week of my “Medicine and Web 2.0” university credit course. This time I focused on how virtual worlds can be used in medicine and healthcare.
I also have a detailed guide dedicated to this topic on Webicina.
And I have recently had a virtual presentation for a course of the Nova Southeastern University (including audiocast):
