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Japanese Medical Resources in Social Media September 2, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.
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We launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date easily. It is a simple, 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. It is now available in 14 languages!

The Japanese selection is the newest one in which the platform is in Japanese and the blogs, news, Twitter users and peer-reviewed journals are also the best 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 Japanese version!

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.

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Health 2.0 News: Doctors using Google, Hospital Blogs being Blocked September 1, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Health, Health 2.0, Hospital, Medical Imaging, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Prezi, Slideshow, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.
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It’s not just patients who turn to Google or other search engines to research medical information. According to Google, 86 percent of doctors say they now use  Internet on the job. Of that group, the majority start at Google, which they use as a source to look for general information about diseases and drugs, writes pediatrician Dr. Rahul K. Parikh in a special piece for the Los Angeles Times.

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You may want to think twice before your next visit to the doctor’s office. According to Dr. Barbara Starfield’s now-famous study, iatrogenic deaths (those resulting from treatment by physicians or surgeons) are the third leading cause of mortality in the United States, resulting in the loss of 225,000 lives per year. Of that total, nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections kill 80,000, physician errors claim 27,000, and unnecessary surgery results in 12,000 deaths.

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