Medicine 2.0 News: iPad arrives and Disclaimers rise April 7, 2010

• Risks and Benefits for Physicians Who Use Social Media/Web 2.0 (Clinical Cases and Images)

Anne Wojcicki at TEDMED 2009:

• Apple’s iPad arrives for doctors … (The Search Principle blog): I’ve recently written about the pros and cons of iPad in healthcare. Dean Giustini now provides us with more updates. Here is a health-related iPad app:

• TED talk: Intel’s Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe

• The real reasons why pharma fumbles in social media (Brand Rants): A nice summary of the problems and barriers pharma is facing nowadays regarding the social media adoption.

• Hanako Showa: The robot dental patient (Coolest Gadgets)

• Digital health experts meet on Twitter (eHealth Europe)

Europe’s experts on the use of online engagement in healthcare are using microblogging site, Twitter, to set out a framework for using social media to put patients at the heart of Europe’s healthcare systems. It meets on Twitter every Friday via the status updating platform to share current thinking and to discuss how to drive the movement forward.

• Turning Doctors into Leaders (Harvard Business Review):