Internet in Medicine Course Week 3: RSS and Microblogging March 16, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Web 2.0.3 comments
The new semester of the Internet in Medicine university accredited course for medical students just launched and 120 students registered for the course which is a great pleasure. Now here are the core points of my presentations as well as useful videos and links.
The third week is dedicated to RSS and microblogging. In the first slideshow, I described what RSS is, how to use trend trackers and which tools can help you follow the medical literature easily.
- Before, we had to surf on the web. Now we let the content and information come to us automatically.
- Definition and story of RSS.
- Advantages of RSS (easy to use, free, comprehensive).
- Statistics (medical bloggers tend to read RSS).
- RSS icons.
- How to read RSS (browser; Bloglines; desktop-based readers).
- An example, a real tutorial about how to follow the latest articles published on NEJM. Step by step.
- Best friend of docs? Of course, Pubmed. How to follow Pubmed updates easily.
- What to do when a site doesn’t have RSS feed.
- Biowizard.com and other 3rd party Pubmed tools
- Suggestions about how to use Google Alerts efficiently.
I published a step-by-step guide on Webicina.com about how to keep yourself up-to-date easily.
Take-home message:
Let the information come to you and follow your field of interest easily.
Second slideshow focused on microblogging:
- Definition of Twitter, post, reply, direct message, tweeple, twitterview, etc.
- Good examples in medicine
- How to search on Friendfeed
- How to search on Twitter: tweetscan.com
- If you’re new to Twitter
- Twitter And Health 2.0: A Visual Story
- Follow me on Twitter, if…
- 10 Tips: How to filter discussions on Twitter?
- The Youngest Twitterer and the Future of Health Management
- What you have to know about Twitter
- 10 Reasons Why I Use Twitter
- Tips and Tricks: Is Twitter reliable?
Take-home message:
Twitter is the fastest channel of communication these days, but only use it if you have a well designed strategy.
Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction March 15, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine.add a comment
I would like to share my favourite and ongoing projects with you so I can give you a proper introduction to Scienceroll.com. You can also find me on Twitter or on Friendfeed.
For news and articles about the impact of web 2.0 on medicine and healthcare, please follow the Medicine 2.0 Friendfood room.
For news and articles about personalized medicine and genetics, please follow the Gene Genie Friendfeed room.
Medicine 2.0 University Course: This is the third semester of the first university course that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students. Now, almost 100 students attend the 20 slideshows through 10 weeks and they fill a survey out before and after the course.
Medicine 2.0 Collection: I maintain the biggest collection of links and posts focusing on web 2.0 and medicine.
Webicina.com is my service that aims to help medical professionals and patients enter the web 2.0 era by providing them with e-courses, consulting and personalized packages.
PeRSSonalized Medicine is a free tool that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place. You can create your own “medical journal” and as we are totally open to suggestions, let us add the journals, blogs and websites that you would like to follow.
Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.
List of biomedical and scientific community sites: More than 30 communities with links, descriptions and screenshots.
List of Biomedical video sites: Almost 40 sites featuring scientific or medical videos and videocasts.
Internet in Medicine Course Week 2: Medical blogging March 15, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Web 2.0.3 comments
The new semester of the Internet in Medicine university accredited course for medical students just launched and 120 students registered for the course which is a great pleasure. Now here are the core points of my presentations as well as useful videos and links.
The second week is always dedicated to the medical blogosphere. Key points of the first slideshow:
- Definition of blog, post, trackback, pingback, comment, tag.
- First blog: Jorn Barger, 1997
- Technorati statistics about the state of the entire blogosphere
- Blogs in plain English:
- Types of blogs and bloggers
- Major medical blogs as examples: Kevin, MD; Medgadget; Sixuntilme; Doctor Anonymous; Street Anatomy.
- Analyzing the results of the study of Ivor Kovic et al. (Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers)
- Blog carnivals and microcarnivals
- How to educate with blogs (e.g. Alan J Cann)
- Some examples such as the recent post from Sergey Brin about his genes and the posts it led to (Gene Sherpa, Scienceroll, Discovering Biology in a Digital World)
- Dangers and how to fight them: Honcode, privacy issues, HIPAA, etc.
- The lesson of Dr. Flea
- Future? Streaming your life. E.g.: yongfook.com
In the second slideshow, I described how to start a new blog step-by-step.
- You need to answer 3 questions first before starting a blog:
- What kind of blogger will I be?
- Where should I blog? WordPress.com
- How should I blog?
- My “3 blogging rule” described what you need to become a good blogger: commitment, consistency and openness
- Shared many examples about how to build a successful medical blog.
Take-home message:
A medical blog can be a perfect channel to make new contacts, find new opportunities and share your ideas with the world.
The 2 slideshows are described in details on Webicina.com’s e-guide:
See you next week when we will talk about Twitter in Medicine and also how to keep yourself up-to-date with RSS.
Health 2.0 News: Virtual patients, Design Challenge and the Future March 15, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Pharma, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.add a comment
- PatientsLikeMe Reports High Rate of Adverse Event Reporting Among Its Members (Pharma Marketing Blog): Patientslikeme will certainly play an important role in driving the pharma sector towards social media.
- The 2010 DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge: The DiabetesMine blog presents this year’s Design Challenge in which innovations in diabetes can win prizes.
- WebMD + Social Media, NOT! (Chilmark Research): WebMD wanted to take a step towards web 2.0, but didn’t do it in the best manner.
- My name is Christopher. I have CF and was born in Novartis (Advertising and Health): A virtual patient promotes a new pharma-sponsored community site for patients dealing with cystic fibrosis. Does anyone think it’s a good idea?
- Protecting Your Professional Image in the 21st Century (BiteSize Bio): A timely entry about why and how to be cautious online. Have you checked the settings of your Facebook or Twitter account recently?
- Health care of the future? (Hans Oh’s eHealth Blog):
- Checklists
- Behavioral Economics
- Patient Portals
- Payment Innovations
- Evidence-Based Decision Making
- Accountable Care Organizations
- Virtual Visits
- Regenerative Medicine
- Surgical Robots
- Genetic Medicine
- Quantified Self Business Models (The Quantified Self):
The session began with McCabe of ContagionHealth describing her company, whose first product is a social game that allows people to exchange exercise challenges. What on the surface looks like a fun diversion and micro-motivator is actually an insertion strategy for new tools of mapping human psychology and social influence, McCabe explained. The group is already experimenting with segmenting users (for instance, into “doms” and “subs” according to whether they prefer influencing or being influenced). This is invisible to the user, who sees only an invitation to play with their friends. Right now, McCabe and her partner Andrey Petrov hope to make money by licensing the platform to employee wellness programs.
Psychiatry and Web 2.0 March 14, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.add a comment
As Webicina.com is getting closer to a huge milestone, here is the newest addition, Psychiatry and Web 2.0, that focuses on selected mobile apps, blogs, podcasts, Twitterers, communities, slideshows and many more social media tools dedicated to psychiatry.
The number of mental health or psychiatry-related websites is constantly growing and it is getting harder to find relevant, reliable resources, but with PeRSSonalized Psychiatry it will be a piece of cake for You.
Google Data Explorer and Visualizing Health Supplements March 13, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Google, Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Visualization, Web 2.0.3 comments
If you are interested in the scientific evidence behind some health supplements, this is the best tool you can use as it helps visualize the huge amount of information and also medical conditions related to the supplements.
For those data geeks out there, here is Google Public Data Explorer, a visualization tool that lets you explore, visualize and share data. Some datasets including cancer statistics have already been uploaded.
23andMe: Medical Advice? March 13, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Genetic testing, genetics, Video.2 comments
ThinkGene reported that Myriad and 23andMe perform the same breast cancer genetic test on the BRCA gene. The problem is 23andMe cannot provide medical advice. The conclusion is interesting and it would be great to hear what 23andMe has to say about this.
The objections to this claim are that this same test is already defined for use as “health ascertainment or disease purposes” and that the use of this test is already included in standard medical practices in the United States. One implementation of this test for use as “health ascertainment or disease purposes” includes the Myriad “Multisite 3 BRACAnalysis” test.
Thus, either the 23andMe “BRCA Cancer Mutations (Selected)” test is medicine, or the the Myriad “Multisite 3 BRACAnalysis” test is not medicine.
And the second part of the results:
Nutrition and Web 2.0 March 10, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.add a comment
Nutrition and Web 2.0 is a new collection of resources on Webicina.com that features selected nutrition blogs, news sites, podcasts, Youtube channels, mobile applications and slideshows, among others. As the number of nutrition resources is huge, it was a challenge to find the most relevant content.
We also help you follow news, journals, blogs and Twitter users on PeRSSonalized Nutrition which 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 in one personalized place.
Many thanks to Keith Grimaldi and the Health and Nutrition 2.0 blog for the great help!
Porcelain Brain Tumor March 8, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Art, Medicine.2 comments
I guess the Street Anatomy blog will like that. Porcelain brain tumor made by Christina Haase. It looks really realistic.
(Hat Tip: Idegenszövet)
Leadership Lessons Through Dance March 8, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Video, Web 2.0.2 comments
I’ve recently come across this great video on Read Write Web. It discusses leadership through a strange guy who is dancing. It’s a great example how important first adopters are in the process of making something well known and getting more followers. Building a Twitter community for example is absolutely similar to what we see on this video:
