PeRSSonalized Medicine: Finnish Social Media Resources July 13, 2010

We launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date 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 about a medical specialty or condition in one personalized place. We already have 11 national versions.

And now the Finnish version is launched! It does not only mean the platform is in Finnish, but the resources are also the best ones in that language. Please let us know if you want to see PeRSSonalized Medicine in your language.

Many thanks to Marja Silenti (Twitter), e-learning specialist at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki and Timo Ukkola (Twitter), health and human services informatics professional for the translation and the selection of quality Finnish 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.