Internet in Medicine Course Week 9: Google Story and Medical Search Engines April 28, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Google, Health, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Web 2.0.28 comments
I launched the world’s first elective course at a medical university focusing on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students in 2008. Now this is the 4th semester and the 9th week was dedicated to the Google story and medical search engines. Here is the outline of my presentations.
First slideshow: The Google phenomenon
- The first Google search engine in 1998
- The founders, the basic concept, the workplace
- Presenting the best Google applications: News, Groups, Docs, GMail, Images, Google Ads, Scholar, Talk, Youtube, Google Earth, Maps, Calendar, Trends (Flu Trends), Reader, Alerts, Translate, Google Fight
- Also some of the dead ones: Google Lively and Knol
- Talking about 23andme and how our genomic profiles will affect the future of healthcare
Take-home message: Google can make our lives easier. The question is how close we should let it come to us.
Second slideshow: Medical Search Engines
- How to search on the web (Google tricks)
- E-patients search at imedix.com, webmd.com, medgle.com
- Pubmed tricks
- Pubmed Faceoff
- Sciencerollsearch.com
- Biowizard, trend trackers
- Image search (Bing.com), video search
- Semantic concept, chacha.com?
Take-home message: Search like a professional and help your patients search properly online.
Next week I will give the last slideshows this semester in which I will present the results of the surveys students filled.
Internet-Based Medical Television Officially Launches April 27, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0.14 comments
A few weeks ago I wrote about MDiTV, an Internet-Based Medical Television, that is now officially launched. You can watch the videos in great quality or read the same news. I still think such an initiative has a lot of opportunities and MDiTV seems to be doing it in a really professional way.
MDiTV is the first health sciences media network to exclusively use internet-based video content, making the information more meaningful and easily understood. MDiTV will be a new platform for the health care community to interact and share information, available through apps, smart phones, widgets, and television. It is the first network of its kind.
The impact of social media on healthcare: Video April 27, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired Magazine and author of The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine discusses the impact of social media on health-related decisions with Susannah Fox, Associate Director of Digital Strategy at the Pew Internet & American Life Project and co-author of the study, Chronic Disease and the Internet.
Health 2.0 News: Social Networking in Academia and IBM ads April 27, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Video, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
- How Social Media Could Improve FDA AdComm Meetings, Part 2 (Eye on FDA): Mark Senak discusses my Second Life experiences.
- Consumers Like Medical Toys Too (Medgadget): From Zeo to FitBit
- Health 2.0 Europe: A Moveable Feast (E-Patients.net): The slides Susannah Fox used at Health 2.0 Paris:
- Mobile Medicine via iPod/iPhone/iPad Apps (Clinical Cases and Images)
- Got app? Top mobile medicine sites 2010 (The Search Principle Blog)
- Social networking in academia (Research Trends): Scientific literature with “social network*” in their title, abstract or keywords began climbing rapidly in 2004.
- IBM makes its technology more human (Advertising and health): IBM shows how its technology is helping doctors at the Hospital of Toronto to analyse patient data.
- BioData: A service that lets you manage your research progress, lab supplies, specimen collection & experimental results.
Science in Social Media: From the Literature April 26, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Medicine, science, twitter, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
Friendfeed.com is really becoming a golden resource for scientists interested in social media. I’ve found the two papers below today on Friendfeed, in the life scientist room.
Understanding how Twitter is used to spread scientific messages (pdf)
According to a survey we recently conducted, Twitter was ranked in the top three services used by Semantic Web researchers to spread information. In order to understand how Twitter is practically used for spreading scienti c messages, we captured tweets containing the official hashtags of three conferences and studied (1) the type of content that researchers are more likely to tweet, (2) how they do it, and nally (3) if their tweets can reach other communities | in addition to their own. In addition, we also conducted some interviews to complete our understanding of researchers’ motivation to use Twitter during conferences.
Studying Scientific Discourse on the Web Using Bibliometrics: A Chemistry Blogging Case Study (pdf)
Scientific discourse occurs both in the academic literature and, increasingly, on the Web. What is discussed in the literature influences what is discussed on the web, and the reverse. However, the study of this discourse has largely been isolated based on medium either using bibliometrics for academic literature or webometrics for Web-based communication. In this work, the science blog aggregator Researchblogging.org is used to enable the study of scientific discourse on the Web using bibliometric techniques, in particular, keyword and citation similarity maps. The study focuses on a set of 295 chemistry blog posts about peer-reviewed research. Based on bibliometric maps, we provide evidence that scientific discourse on the Web is more immediate, contextually relevant and has a larger non-technical focus than the academic literature.
Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer April 26, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Video.add a comment
Here is one of the newest TED talks in which Henry Markham, director of Blue Brain, a supercomputing project shows how he built a brain in a supercomputer.
Health 2.0 in the Netherlands April 25, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Video, Web 2.0.16 comments
Here is a great video about health 2.0. It’s apparently in Dutch, but has English subtitles.
New Features in ResearchGATE April 24, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, science, Web 2.0.2 comments
As a co-author of ResearchGATE Masterblog, I’m happy to see the new features in the largest social network for scientists:
Users of ResearchGATE can now enable micoblogging on their profile to keep their connections up to date on their latest work and subscribe to updates from other scientists in their network. Microblogging feeds from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn can be consolidated on ResearchGATE to give users a holistic view. Members can also effortlessly share documents, data or experiment information so that scientists can work smarter together and learn from previous experiments. “The key to making information accessible to the scientists that need it is making it easy for other scientists to publish that information. This way experiments, data and measurements can finally cease to be repeated hundreds of times around the globe and we can make greater strides in new discoveries,” said Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of ResearchGATE.
Patient Community Site in Your Language April 24, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.5 comments
Since 2007, I’ve been working on a Hungarian patient community site, Várószoba.hu (waitingroom.com in Hungarian), where patients can share honest, detailed stories about their health management or symptoms tagged by medical conditions. By this they can form real communities in which they get closer to each other and read important thoughts, sometimes great tips from people dealing with the same conditions.
Now this community is big enough to look for opportunities to be represented in other countries in other languages as well.
If you are interested in launching it in other languages, please let me know so we can discuss it.
