PeRSSonalized Medicine: Multiple Sclerosis News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube December 9, 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 Multiple Sclerosis with all the quality news sites, blogs, peer-reviewed journals and web 2.0 tools focusing on multiple sclerosis.
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.
PeRSSonalized Pathology: News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube December 6, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Pathology, 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 Pathology with all the quality news sites, blogs, peer-reviewed journals and web 2.0 tools focusing on pathology.
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.
A Really Funny Idea December 5, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Video.4 comments
Sometimes a marketing idea can provide inspiration that could be used in healthcare innovations as well. Imagine hospitals where people learn about healthy lifestyle by only using such solutions:
Hospital Music Videos December 5, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Music, Video.3 comments
Do you remember the music video with the title Breathe? I wrote about it a few months ago. Their name is The Laryngospasms and they have an own website where you can download other songs as well like the Fractured Femur.
Here are other “pop classics”:
Update: Many thanks to Denton Shanks for the other tips:
Web 2.0 and Medicine News: Cost of Getting Sick December 5, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in FDA, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, What's on the web?, Wiki.1 comment so far
- The Cost of Getting Sick (Flowing Data): Click here to see the costs of different medical conditions in different ages.
- Over 102 million people are using the Web to research prescription drug information.
- The average physician now spends a full work day (eight hours) using the Internet for professional reasons – a substantial jump from only 2.5 hours in 2002.
Interactive Workbench on SEED Magazine December 4, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in science, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
SEED Magazine just published a very interesting interactive image that lets you look behind the scenes of the workbench of a famous and successful scientist.
Martin Chalfie is perhaps best known for his Nobel Prize-winning work on GFP, a jellyfish molecule that glows bright green when exposed to blue light.
Click on the image below to read the descriptions and to find out what a talking stick is.
Here are also other workbenches of different scientists.
Age of Personalized Medicine: New Blog December 4, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, genetics, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Personalized medicine, Web 2.0.5 comments
I was glad to share the new blog of the Human Genome Organisation with you a few weeks ago. Now here is the new blog of the Age of Personalized Medicine which is a quality website dedicated to the possible implications of personalized medicine.
Welcome to The Age of Personalized Medicine Blog! Each week, our expert contributors will address the most pressing science and policy issues of the day that are shaping the future of personalized medicine.
Tomorrow, Amy Miller of the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) will share her thoughts on the intersection of personalized medicine and comparative effectiveness research, and highlight the topics being discussed at the Comparative Effectiveness Research and Personalized Medicine: Policy, Science, and Business conference in Washington, D.C. We invite you to join the discussion!
Though both blogs are good initiatives, there is a clear difference between them. The difference is Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei who is the official editor of HUGO Matters and one of the best genetic bloggers in the whole blogosphere. No matter how fantastic experts write entries for a blog if the blog itself doesn’t have an editor who is an expert in managing blogs. You can be proficient in writing articles for scientific journals or news sites, but it doesn’t mean you are a good blogger as well.
Doctor Patient Discussion on Facebook: Banned December 3, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Facebook, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.5 comments
There is an interesting article in E-Health Europe about how patients try to contact doctors on Facebook, the popular social networking site, and how doctors shouldn’t respond to them. In my “Medicine and Web 2.0” university credit course, we cover this important issue several times and I try to provide students with useful pieces of advice about how to avoid such problems.
The Medical Defence Union said it was aware of a number of cases where patients have attempted to proposition doctors by sending them an unsolicited message on Facebook or similar sites.
The medical defence body said it would be “wholly inappropriate” to respond to a patient making an advance in such a way.
Dr Emma Cuzner, MDU medico-legal adviser, said the pitfalls posed to doctors using social networking sites and inadvertently breaching patient confidentiality had already been well documented but the dangers of patients using the sites to approach doctors were less well publicised.
In an anonymised case highlighted by the MDU a female GP was asked out for a drink by a patient as she left the surgery. When she declined the patient contacted the doctor via Facebook and sent her a bunch of her favourite flowers which he had found out about from her freely available Facebook page.
Augmented Reality for Twitter December 3, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Technology, twitter, Web 2.0.5 comments
I’ve recently written about the connection between automated external defibrillators and augmented reality. That application was based on Layar:
Now we can locate Twitter friends in our mobile phones:
Where is the medical potential in that? You can locate your friends who have the same medical condition and happen to be around you or you can locate doctors in the hospital you scheduled an appointment with.
Any other ideas?
