Medicine 2.0 Congress 2010 Maastricht: Video September 14, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine 2.0 Congress, Video.add a comment
Medicine 2.0 this November in Maastricht is going to be an exciting event and this short teaser was meant to prove this:
Science & Research: Selected Social Media Resources September 13, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in PeRSSonalized Medicine, science, Web 2.0, Webicina.1 comment so far
Webicina.com features selected blogs, news sites, medical journals, Twitter users and Youtube channels dedicated to science & research in the newest PeRSSonalized Science & Research collection. This is the simplest, customizable, free medical information aggregator. There are so many resources, so please let us know if we missed something.
You can also add custom Pubmed search boxes to your personalized journal.
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.
- You can view the selection in over 15 languages.
The world’s most influential doctors according to Twitter September 13, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, List, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, twitter, Web 2.0.9 comments
I got the honour to be included in the list of the top 5 doctors in medicine published by The Independent. The list was based on Twitterdoctors.net which uses the Klout algorithm for determining the influence of tweeting doctors.
TwitterDoctors.net updates hourly the influence of doctors tweeting based on their activity, RTs (retweets) and followers. The site began its list at the end of July and boasts “1287 doctors with more joining every day” from around the globe including Australia, Belgium, India, UK, Jamaica, Japan, Colombia and the USA.
On September 7, the top five most influential doctors are:
1. @DRoftheVaJayJay
2. @drdrew
3. @brontyman
4. @Berci
5. @hrana
It doesn’t mean that much, but it’s good to know people like the content I share day by day.
A Periodic Table of Google Elements September 10, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Google, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Visualization.4 comments
The new semester of my Internet in Medicine university elective course for medical students is coming soon, so I’ve already started looking for new materials and updates about the topics I cover. There is a presentation about Google in the 9th week and I just found this periodic table of Google elements. So far, I’ve been using the periodic table of collaboration.
ePrescribe drugs through an iPad September 10, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Electronic Medical Records, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Video, Web 2.0.add a comment
I just came across these videos from drchrono.com describing how drugs can be ePrescribed through an iPad.
Chinese Collection of Medical Social Media Resources September 9, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.add a comment
We launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date easily. It’s the simplest, free, customizable medical information aggregator covering over 65 medical specialties and conditions in 15 languages!
The Chinese selection is the newest one in which the platform is in Chinese and the blogs, news sites, Twitter users and peer-reviewed journals are also the most relevant ones in that language. Please let us know if you want to see PeRSSonalized Medicine in your language. Click on the image below to access the Chinese version!
Many thanks to Stanley Li from DXY.cn and Xavier Brochart for their invaluable help with the translation and the selection of quality Chinese medical 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.
- Access over 65 medical topics in over 15 languages!
Chart the Evidence Instead of Peer-Review September 9, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical journalism, Medicine 2.0, science, Visualization, Web 2.0.4 comments
Alex O Holcombe and Hal Pashler, co-developers of Chart the Evidence, believe instead of peer-review, we should create evidence charts just like that:
This free site leads students to glean evidence from the research literature, articulate theories, and consider whether each piece of evidence supports or undermines each theory.
See a toy example chart or read about evidence-charting in our blog.
Working scientists find the site useful for quickly creating a compact representation of the evidence for and against competing hypotheses.
I have to admit, it’s not a bad idea. I’m sure the majority of scientists is sick of peer-review, partly because it’s anonimous in most cases, and also because it doesn’t always help improve the manuscript. But the research communities would clearly benefit from such evidence charts. I’m curious to see what the editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals have to say on this.
Real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits September 9, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Visualization, Web 2.0, Wikipedia.add a comment
In the Internet in Medicine electice course for medical students, I always mention how Wikipedia works in real-time in the Wikipedia lecture. I also show a video to them about the London bombings and how the related entry changed from second to second:
Well, this semester I will show them something even better, the real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits:
AT&T and Telemedicine September 8, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Telemedicine, Video.2 comments
I just got an e-mail mentioning the role AT&T would like to play in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring. Here is a comprehensive review about this, and I thought I would share some real examples now.
The term telehealth— the use of telecommunications to share healthcare services and information–encompasses multiple aspects of healthcare: teleconferencing, conversion of medical records to digital form, and collaboration among healthcare providers who all have the same information.
Potentially more exciting is the use of telecommunications to remotely monitor patients’ health and relay medical and biometric information directly from the home to doctors and health facilities, all within seconds. Remote monitoring is possible with a new generation of small, inexpensive sensors with very low power requirements. The new sensors, benefiting from recent advances in miniaturization, are as accurate as hospital-grade equipment of just a few years ago, at a fraction of the cost.
Lusheng Ji of AT&T Labs Research discusses wireless-network health research projects, including smart slippers and remote monitoring of pill-taking.
Demonstration of remote patient monitoring at the HIMSS 2010 conference.
