Sounds of HIV: Unique! October 31, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Music.4 comments
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Alexandra Pajak, a graduate student at the University of Georgia, who released an album of music based on the DNA of HIV. You can buy the album on Amazon (release date: 26, October). Note that some of the proceeds will go to the Emory Vaccine Center, which conducts research for an HIV vaccine. If you wonder how it was made, here is the explanation.
I just go my copy and it’s truly amazing. I love this kind of music.
Social Media Toolkit from CDC is out! October 29, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0.5 comments
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention published the newest the Health Communicator’s Social Media Toolkit (here is the PDF version).
A guide to using social media to improve reach of health messages, increase access to your content, further participation with audiences and advance transparency to improve health communication efforts.
The guide is truly fantastic, detailed, comprehensive.
medCrowd: A New Medical Community October 28, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Community Site, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
medCrowd is the 52nd in my list of biomedical community sites and maybe the first one using crowdsourcing.
Perhaps, you have a patient with a rare condition and you don’t know the best treatment. Or you are treating a patient and you have heard there have been recent developments in the field but you are not sure how these actually affect your patient’s day-to-day management.
The problem is finding the best solution for your patient. What you need is help finding it.
medCrowd enables you to find the best solution for your patient by collecting your peers’ professional opinions, simply and in one place. This is called crowdsourcing.
Health 2.0 News: From Medting to Break Dancing October 27, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Electronic Medical Records, Robotics, Video, Web 2.0.add a comment
For a moment, let’s throw out the talk of any government incentives for implementing electronic health records (EHR). Everyone tends to focus on the incentives much more than the other very real benefits of having an EHR system. A number of providers have implemented EMR systems even before the incentives were announced. Most of those providers would never want to return to paper systems again. Here are a few non-incentive related reasons for implementing an EMR system.
The Hospital Social Network List October 27, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Hospital, List, Web 2.0.2 comments
Ed Bennett has been managed a huge and comprehensive list of US hospitals using social media. In the newest update, Hospital LinkedIn accounts are now also tracked in addition to Twitter, Youtube, Facebbok and Blogs.
Current Stats:
871 Hospitals total
- 421 YouTube Channels
- 679 Facebook pages
- 648 Twitter Accounts
- 417 LinkedIn Accounts
- 94 Blogs
You can also browse by state. The number of hospitals using each account is below:
6th Annual Pharma Marketing & Branding Excellence October 26, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Conference.1 comment so far
It was just confirmed that I will speak at the 6th Annual Pharma Marketing & Branding Excellence in Milan on the 26th of January, 2011.
Recently, behaviors of pharmaceutical marketing landscape, which includes health care providers, patients, and consumers are changing. Pharma companies are now favoring marketing through new media technologies like mobile-Web integration and online interactivity.
Following five successful annuals, Jacob Fleming Group invites you to the 6th Annual Pharma Marketing & Branding Excellence. Yet again we have gathered worldwide Pharma marketing specialists who will share their knowledge with you. Hear them speak about the most powerful marketing strategies and network face-to-face.
I got the opportunity to invite two colleagues as delegates for 50% discounted fee. If you are interested, just let me know.
Epilepsy and Web 2.0: Selected Resources! October 25, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.2 comments
Epilepsy is without doubt a very important medical issue and while there are plenty of related resources, nobody has reviewed these and selected the most relevant ones so far. Webicina’s new Epilepsy and Web 2.0 collection features selected social media resources/applications focusing on epilepsy.
PeRSSonalized Epilepsy, the simplest, free, customizable, multi-lingual medical information aggregator will let you follow these resources easily in a personalized way.
Here is table of contents:
- News and Information on Epilepsy
- Epilepsy in the Blogosphere
- Epilepsy Podcasts and Intreviews
- Epilepsy Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums
- Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed
- Epilepsy Wikis
- Epilepsy videos, animations and videocasts
- Mobile Applications
- Social Bookmarking
- Medical Search Engines
- Slideshows about Epilepsy
Feel free to share any of these resources and let us know if you think others should be added.
Has Your Doctor Received Drug Company Money? October 24, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Pharma, Web 2.0.7 comments
Let’s be honest here, it’s not that rare that doctors accept payments from drug companies (e.g. speaker fees) and it might or may influence their decision-making when prescribing drugs. ProPublica has released a searchable database of MDs taking payments from drug companies. This is transparency. I would be more than interested to see how a doc would react to a patient who mentions this at the next visit.
Drug companies have long kept secret details of the payments they make to doctors for promoting their drugs. But seven companies have begun posting names and compensation on the Web, some as the result of legal settlements. ProPublica compiled these disclosures, totaling $258 million, into a single database that allows patients to search for their doctor. Receiving payments isn’t necessarily wrong, but it does raise ethical issues.
Here is an example of John Smith, MD from Connecticut:
