Health 2.0 News: iFall and Marketing Hospitals May 6, 2010
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- Watch Live Surgeries on your iPhone and iPad – Coming soon via MDiTV (iMedical Apps):
- Juggle All Your Social Networks (Edelman Digital): A few great tips about tools that can help you manage all the social networks you use.
- Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
A team at Florida State University is developing software on Android phones to help detect falls and shorten the time it takes to alert emergency services. Unlike other fall-detection technology, this app adds fall detection capability to one of the most commonly-owned devices – your phone.
- Dr. A You Tube Site: Dr: A has been running a medical online radio show for years as well and now he has a Youtube channel.
Internet Addiction: ReStart May 5, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine.2 comments
Internet addiction is becoming a major problem and it’s less and less surprising when reports focusing on this issue are being published. Lately, New York Times came up with the analysis of a recent study:
Researchers at the University of Maryland who asked 200 students to give up all media for one full day found that after 24 hours many showed signs of withdrawal, craving and anxiety along with an inability to function well without their media and social links.
Susan Moeller, the study’s project director and a journalism professor at the university, said many students wrote about how they hated losing their media connections, which some equated to going without friends and family.
I did some research and browsed the website of Microsoft’s Internet Addiction Recovery Program. Here you can find the symptoms, and if you think you should give it a try, keep in mind that 1) the waiting list is long, 2) it costs a lot to attend the 28, 45 or 90 day-long programs ($14 500!).
The mission of this innovative program is to help adults, addicted to video games and the internet, detach from their high-tech distractions, find balance, and reconnect to the real world. It is structured to include individual and group therapy, life-skills coaching, cooperative living, physical and nutritional education, mindfulness training, work and home-maintenance skill-building, 12-step meetings, and weekly, off-site, high-adventure expeditions. The facility is located on a beautiful, 5-acre parcel of land in western Washington.
Really Personalized Medicine May 5, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Genome, Medicine, Personalized medicine, science.1 comment so far
Stephen Quake had his genome sequenced a year ago and since then he and 30 collegues have been working on the medical aspects of this huge amount of data. They try to make connections between genetic background and medical decisions. The results they found were published in The Lancet.
Analysis of 2·6 million single nucleotide polymorphisms and 752 copy number variations showed increased genetic risk for myocardial infarction, type 2 diabetes, and some cancers. We discovered rare variants in three genes that are clinically associated with sudden cardiac death—TMEM43, DSP, and MYBPC3. A variant in LPA was consistent with a family history of coronary artery disease. The patient had a heterozygous null mutation in CYP2C19 suggesting probable clopidogrel resistance, several variants associated with a positive response to lipid-lowering therapy, and variants in CYP4F2 and VKORC1 that suggest he might have a low initial dosing requirement for warfarin. Many variants of uncertain importance were reported.
Medical News Today also covered this important step in revealing the power of personal genomics.
Quake told the media that: “We’re at the dawn of a new age in genomics.”
“Information like this will enable doctors to deliver personalized health care like never before,” he added, explaining for example, that it will help fine tune care so that patients at higher risk get closer, more relevant surveillance and patients at lower risk are spared unnecessary tests.
PeRSSonalized Médicine: The Best French Resources May 4, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.3 comments
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 medical information aggregator 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. We already have national versions:
And now the French version is launched! It does not only mean the platform is French , but the resources are also the best ones in that language. We will publish Polish and Italian collections as well soon. Please let us know if you want to see PeRSSonalized Medicine in your language.
Many thanks to Denise Silber, the French e-health guru; Xavier Brochart and Dr Jean-François Girmens ophthalmologist blogger who helped a lot with the translation and the selection of quality French resources.
Some reasons why PeRSSonalized Medicine 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.
Surprisingly Effective Treatments for Depression: Infographics May 4, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Health, Health 2.0, Infographics, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Visualization, Web 2.0.4 comments
Curetogether.com, one of the most famous patient community sites, has been doing research for a long time. They use the data patients share anonymously about their symptoms, treatments and experiences. Now using the profiles of 944 members dealing with depression, they created this infographics that shows a few surprisingly effective treatments for depression.
While exercise and meditation are great treatment options, light therapy and massage seem to be effective alternative solutions.
It’s a nice way to mine the data e-patients share about their health management.
Social Media and Healthcare: Market Research Reports May 4, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0.2 comments
EPG Health Media just published market research reports about social media in healthcare that can be donwloaded in PDF format for free.
This 25 page report is based on market research conducted by EPG during Feb-March 2010 comparing HCP, patient/consumer and Pharma responses to 10 questions related to their use of social media for health. It provides a snap-shot of both current and future trends and opportunities in the digital social space.
Webcam Laboratory May 3, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-Science, Education, Innovation, Medicine, science, Video, Visualization.add a comment
Webcam Laboratory offers a great way to teach students about science as it makes the whole process interactive and also interesting. It now has 4 functionalities: time lapse cam, kinematics, microscope and motion cam.
WebCam Laboratory allows you to observe things and phenomena that have always been there around you, but you haven’t had the chance to recognize them. Would you like to measure the depth of a Moon crater? The distance of a star or the length of a single-celled specie? Would you like to know how the circulation of the Sun changes, when the animals of the garden wake up, who tithe the nut in the basement or what kind of birds live around your house?
WebCam Laboratory is exactly what you need, if you are curious how your favorite plant grows day by day, how clouds form or swirl on the sky, or if you just want to see a whole day from the rise of the Sun until it sets.
And a few examples to see:
Internet in Medicine Course Week 10: Future of Web May 3, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Web 2.0.6 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 10th week was dedicated to the future of web and medicine. Here is the outline of my presentations.
First part of the Prezi.com slideshow: Towards web 3.0
- Buzzwords! (there is no physical difference between web or web 2.0)
- Features of web 1.0, web 2.0 and web 3.0
- Concept of semantic web: example of collecting stamps
- I write documents about all of my stamps and later I want to find stamps with red background
- What to do? I do a search but will find the Red Cross stamp and other stamps that have red in their names but don’t have a red background.
- Solution: tell the computer stamp is a stamp, but red is a colour.
- Give meaning to information.
- Wolfram Alpha medical/clinical examples.
- + OpenID, interoperability (peoplebrowsr.com)
- Powerset.com, Hakia.com, Twine.com, Freebase.com
- What’s next?
- Web 4.0? (glidedigital.com)
- myrl.com, mobile 2.0, medical internet TV
Take-home message: The story is just about to begin…
Second part of the slideshow: Summary of the last 10 weeks
- 10 weeks – 20 slideshows
- 2 slideshows each week
- 2 major questions in each slideshow
- Examples for all the tools and sites we have talked about.
- This is the first university credit course of its kind in the world.
Take-home message: I hope I could help you enter the web 2.0 era and make your online presence as efficient as possible.
Third part of the slideshow: Survey results
- Students filled a survey before and after the course.
- Now I analyzed the results which we will publish in a peer-reviewed journal soon.
Twitter Tips for Health Professionals May 2, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, twitter, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
Twitip published a list of tips for health professionals using Twitter.
- Confidentiality: Confidentiality is equally important online as it is offline.
- Respect: People are not stupid.
- Share
- Language: Don’t use jargon.
- Advice: Be aware of the advice that you provide on twitter.
- Engage: Work with those in your profession or industry to get more evidence based positive health messages out there.
- Align: Before you get onto social media sites to promote yourself, determine who your ideal follower is, and therefore aim for your posts to align with what they would like to hear.
I thought it’s also time to collect my entries dedicated to this topic, so enjoy:
- 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?
The Colon Cancer Home Screening Kit May 1, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Video, Web 2.0.8 comments
A promotional video from Colonversation.ca:
Cancer View Canada connects Canadians to online services, information and resources for cancer control. It is an ever-evolving portal that brings together resources for cancer prevention, screening, treatment, and supportive, palliative and end-of-life care. Through its collaborative tools, Cancer View Canada also links people in the Canadian cancer community to each other.
Obviously, it’s quite different from direct-to-consumer genetic testing as the efficacy of these tests are higher.
