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Webicina.com: 2009 Summary December 30, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.
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In October of 2008, I launched Webicina.com, the world’s first medical free web 2.0 guidance service, in order to help empowered patients and their doctors find quality medical information and medical web tools easily. 2009 was a fantastic year with many new features and international conferences where I presented our work. Here are the milestones.

Webicina.com main page

Webicina.com was presented at:

  • Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference 17 (Long Beach, CA; January, 2009)
  • Web 2.0 BarCamp in Budapest, Hungary (March, 2009)
  • Acutezorg.nl event in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (March, 2009).
  • Sanidad 2.0 in Bilbao, Spain (June, 2009)
  • Science Foo Camp in San Francisco, USA (July, 2009)
  • Pharma 2.0 event in Budapest, Hungary (October, 2009)
  • Reshape Health 2.0 event in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (October, 2009)
  • Cor 09 National Cardiology Congress in Budapest, Hungary (November, 2009)

Webicina.com Medical Web 2.0 Collections:

Webicina.com free e-guides:

PeRSSonalized Medicine is a free tool that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place. Now it has 26 sections!

perssonalized medicine

Languages of PeRSSonalized Medicine:

We are just finishing major changes on Webicina, so in 2010, we will come up with some innovative and useful features. Please stay tuned for more!

Our mission is to help patients and doctors use the web as efficiently as possible.

2009 in Numbers and Entries December 30, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, List, Medicine, Scienceroll, Web 2.0.
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2009 was a great year for me and also for Scienceroll. I graduated from medical school and started PhD in clinical genetics. The second and third semesters of my “Medicine and Web 2.0” university course were finished. I was included in the The Future Health 100 list. Scienceroll had almost 500 blog posts and 500,000 page views. But now please enjoy the last 365 days’ most popular blog entries of Scienceroll.

January:

February:

March:

April:

May:

June:

July:

August:

September:

October:

November:

December:

Happy New Year! I hope to see you again in 2010! Scienceroll will come up with some exciting material in January.

MRI Puzzle December 30, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Art, Fun, Game, Medical Imaging, Medicine.
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What happens if you combine magnetic resonance imaging with games and creativity? See the idea of Neil Fraser:

(Hat tip: Idegenszövet)

Human Body as a Machine: Video December 30, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Art, Fun, Health, Medical education, Medical Imaging, Medicine, Video.
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Fritz Kahn, a German gynaecologist born in 1888, was a real genius of medical illustrations.  More than a hundred years later Henning Lederer, audiovisual artist, paid tribute to this genius by creating the video below based on Kahn’s work. Enjoy:

(Hat tip: Advertising and Health)

Building a Community Via Twitter in Minutes December 30, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Collaboration, Fun, twitter, Video.
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I wish it was that easy in the healthcare innovation field as well to persuade people who don’t know each other to participate in a specific project in only a few minutes’ time. You may have heard about the story. Someone started a #snOMG hashtag channel on Twitter and people in Washington wanted to do something locally around this so they ad hoc organized a snowball fight by using Twitter and Facebook threads. It took place on December 18, 2009 at the corner of 14th and U Street in Washington, D.C. Let’s see what happened:

VisualDx on Your Mobile December 29, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile.
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I’m now back in action and going to share some reviews and new applications with you today. First, here is VisualDx:

VisualDx Mobile, that is scheduled for release in March, 2010, is the fastest way for physicians to visually validate a patient’s diagnosis. It serves as a decision support tool for physicians, allowing them to either build a differential diagnosis by entering patient findings, signs, and symptoms, or search for a diagnosis by name. It combines physician-reviewed clinical information with more than 18,000 medical images from renowned physician and institutional collections that represent the variation of disease presentation in age, stage, and ethnicity.

I received a few original screenshots:

PeRSSonalized Pediatrics: Selected News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube December 21, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.
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PeRSSonalized Medicine 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 Pediatrics with all the quality news sites, blogs, peer-reviewed journals and web 2.0 tools focusing on pediatrics.

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.

webicina newsletter

Health 2.0 News: 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better December 21, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in FDA, Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.
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To gamers, $40 may seem like a steep price to replace a Wii remote controller, but to scientists, a hacked Wiimote is a steal compared to the pricey sensors needed for a lot of field research.

Inspired by videos of renowned hacker Johnny Chung Lee turning the Wiimote into a finger-tracking device and a touchscreen white board, physicist Rolf Hut of Delft University of Technology built a Wiimote wind sensor.

Best Virtual World Ever: Innovation in Organizing Meetings December 20, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Second Life, Visualization, Visuland, Web 2.0.
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I’ve been organizing scientific events and medical conferences in the virtual realm of Second Life for years. Though it has some serious limitations.

  • If you don’t have IT experience, it will be quite hard to download and install it.
  • Costs a lot if you want to upload content.
  • Creating slideshows is a complicated and long process.

In the last couple of months, I’ve been a consultant for a Hungarian team that developed Visuland which should be a perfect alternative for Second Life:

  • Takes about 20-30 seconds to enter: You come up with the idea to organize an event and send the specific links to the potential attendants. They click on the link and get into your conference room in 20-30 seconds.
  • No need of installation and registration
  • Real-time voice communication
  • Real time video-streaming on virtual screens (you can stream your presentation plus your face via webcam at the same time)
  • Efficient presentation tool -> conferences, workshops, meetings
  • Editable posters and textures -> personalized rooms, advertisements
  • Any website, blog, forum can easily create its own virtual place
  • Public and private chat, transcript can be saved
  • Zero cost for not commercial users

Take a look at it yourself and see how fast you can enter Visuland. It has one major limitation, it only runs on Windows but will run on Macintosh as well in a few months.

Dad Delivers Baby With Help From Google December 20, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Google, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.
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It was the strangest headline this week. Let’s see a case study focusing on how to promote a device carefully and how to deliver false message about the use of online health information.

When Leroy Smith’s pregnant wife started going into labor, the desperate dad didn’t turn to the doctors, but to Google.

Unsure of what do when his wife, Emma Smith, began having contractions at their home, and fearing that the midwife wouldn’t arrive in time, the dad-to-be grabbed his Blackberry and Googled “how to deliver a baby.”

Leroy, a security guard, followed the step-by-step instructions he found on wikiHow, and successfully delivered his and his wife’s baby girl, Mahalia Merita Angela Smith.

First, people should contact online health information resources in severe situations only when there is no chance to get professional help. I saw myself how an operator could help deliver a baby by instructing the guy who made the call. I cannot imagine a situation where you cannot call professional help but can access WikiHow.

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