Genomics Education: Videos April 13, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, genetics, Genome, Video, Web 2.0, Youtube channel.1 comment so far
Genome British Columbia has come up with a series of educational videos describing genomics, gene expression or genomics in everyday life.
(Via Genome Web)
BodyTrace: Weight control and GSM April 13, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Technology, Video, Web 2.0.3 comments
I’ve recently come across BodyTrace, a nice way to combine a bathroom scale that wirelessly uploads and displays your weight & BMI and an online site where you can track all the changes with visualized solutions. You can read the whole story from the first idea on the blog. An excerpt from the description:
We are using the GSM network to transmit your weight to our Website. We use these measurements to create weight and BMI charts and by combining this information with additional data that we collect (from food tracker for example) we can better evaluate your progress and give you feedback on how to reach your goals.
They also have a collaboration with DailyBurn.
See more examples how web 2.0 or social media can be used in fitness here.
Abandoned Soviet Clinic April 11, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Art, Medicine.1 comment so far
I’ve recently come across the photos of Andreas Swane. These photos were taken in a clinic (secret location) in Germany, taken over by the Soviets after World War II, and now it’s abandoned and decayed.
Source: Andreas Swane gave me permission to use this image.
(Hat tip: The Sterile Eye)
Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction April 11, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine.3 comments
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.
Health 2.0 Europe: Video April 11, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Conference, Video.2 comments
I just attended the Health 2.0 conference in Paris and will soon write a summary of my thoughts and feedback, but now here is the opening video:
My “dream” for Healthcare April 7, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0.2 comments
Lucien Engelen, organizer of Medicine 2.0 (Maastricht, November, 2010) and TEDxMaastricht (March, 2011) sent us a video message about reforming healthcare when we attended the Healthcare Social Media Camp in Berlin last week:
Medicine 2.0 News: iPad arrives and Disclaimers rise April 7, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.3 comments
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:
- 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.
- 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):
2010 Spring Semester Week 6: Virtual Reality in Medicine April 6, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Second Life, Slideshow, Virtuality, Web 2.0, Webicina.4 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. This is the 4th semester and the 6th week was dedicated to virtual worlds in medicine and healthcare. Here is the outline of my presentations.
First slideshow:
- Definition of virtual worlds
- Why do we need a second life?
- community + online games + simulation
- One example is secondlife.com
A shorter version of the original slideshow with my own narration:
- More than 20 million users, 30,000,000 online hours
- What does SL mean for people?
- It used to mean gambling (but not now)
- Game? work? (The number of Second Life residents generating more than $5,000 in monthly income has more than quadrupled to 116 in the past year, according to San Francisco’s Linden Lab, owner of Second Life.); place?; tool?; entertainment?; sport?; opportunity?; appearance?
- Technological barriers: register, download, install, open, log in
- You can fly, walk, teleport, buy, sell, build.
- Communication (chat, IM, e-mail, voice)
- advantages (3D, media content, fast communication – SL fitness)
- disadvantages (reliability, serious hardware requirement)
- why do we need a SL?
Take-home message: great opportunities for patients and medical professionals as well.
Second slideshow:
- How do medical students and physicians use it?
- AMMC
- Imperial College of London
- NHS London
- Scifoo Lives On
- Genome Island and many more
- Patients?
- Healthinfo Island
- Virtual Ability
- SLStroke and many more
- Where to follow health events?
Take-home message: Second Life provides useful tools to organize meetings, educate and learn without borders.
Free e-guide about medicine and virtual worlds on Webicina.
Pharma in Social Media: Selected Resources, Dynamic Collections April 5, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Pharma, Web 2.0, Webicina.1 comment so far
Webicina.com now covers a wide range of social media resources related to the pharma industry. Pharma in Social Media focuses on selected mobile apps, blogs, podcasts, Twitterers, communities, slideshows and many more web 2.0 tools dedicated to pharma.
PeRSSonalized Pharma makes it easier to follow dynamically all these resources,
and PeRSSonalized Pharma Companies collects the blogs, news, Twitter users and Youtube channels of the world’s top pharma companies.
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