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COPD and Web 2.0: Selected resources November 16, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Video, Web 2.0, Webicina.
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COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is the 4th leading cause of death and is an important medical issue worldwide. Webicina just published the newest social media collection, COPD and Web 2.0, that features social media resources/applications selected by professionals focusing on this important issue. Blogs, podcasts, news sites, communities, mobile apps and many more.

PeRSSonalized COPD, the simplest, free, customizable, multi-lingual medical information aggregator will also let you follow these resources easily in a personalized way.

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Here is table of contents:

      Feel free to share any of these resources and let us know if you think others should be added.

      If you are wondering how Webicina and PeRSSonalized Medicine work, here are some tutorials:

      Prognosis: A clinical case simulation game November 16, 2010

      Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Game, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Web 2.0.
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      Finally, Prognosis, a new iPhone app is released. It is actually a clinical case simulation game for doctors, medical students and nurses. I can’t wait to see it on Androids.

      Tired of poring over long, complicated medical case studies? Try Prognosis : your Diagnosis – a fun and free game that lets you investigate, deduce and diagnose real life medical cases within minutes.

      Live Tweeting During Operations Again November 16, 2010

      Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Surgery, twitter, Web 2.0.
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      You may remember when I mentioned that the Henry Ford Hospital streamed the first live surgery on Twitter (Twurgery). It seems it wasn’t an only example, as now more and more healthcare institutions start doing the same.

      It seems as though Twitter is everywhere these days, but this is a new one: Thursday, Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro is tweeting in the operating room.

      MTMC tweeted updates and photos of a woman’s hysterectomy as it happened. The patient, Karen Alwell, said she was confident everything would go well.

      It wasn’t the surgeon tapping away on his smart-phone; he had his hands full operating the daVinci Robotic Surgical System to complete the hysterectomy. An employee at the hospital posted the updates.

      You can follow their Twitter account for more updates and they also posted images during the operation.

       

      Webicina Toolbar on Video November 12, 2010

      Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Video, Web 2.0, Webicina.
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      My friend, Guus, just published a tutorial video about the Webicina Toolbar which he designed.

      Health 2.0 News: From Blekko to Cellphones saving lives November 12, 2010

      Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?, Wikipedia.
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      • Blekko is a new search engine that aims to remove spam content from search results by slashtagging websites.

      Free knowledge is the foundation of all Wikimedia projects: anyone is free to use, modify and redistribute the content for any purpose. But copyright and free licenses are very confusing for new users, especially when they want to contribute pictures and other media files. A new illustrated licensing tutorial will now guide new users through the basics of copyright and free licenses to make their first steps easier.

      • Blausen Human Atlas iPad v3.0 New Features

      Early iPad adapter, and Oncology Net Guide advisory board member, Don Dizon, MD, FACP, will review the benefits of using the iPad and explore apps that health care professionals might find useful. Dizon will also explain how he has implemented the iPad into his medical practice; initially planning to use the iPad for personal use, the physician now uses it 80% of the time for professional purposes.

      Internet in Medicine University Course: Virtual Reality in Medicine November 11, 2010

      Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Second Life, Slideshow, Video, Virtuality, Web 2.0.
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      The 6th week of the world’s first university accredited course focusing on medicine and social media was dedicated to virtual reality in medicine.

      First slideshow:

      A shorter version of the original slideshow with my own narration:

      • More than 20 million users, 30,000,000 online hours
      • What does SL mean for people?
      • It used to mean gambling (but not now)
      • Game? work? (The number of Second Life residents generating more than $5,000 in monthly income has more than quadrupled to 116 in the past year, according to San Francisco’s Linden Lab, owner of Second Life.); place?; tool?; entertainment?; sport?; opportunity?; appearance?
      • Technological barriers: register, download, install, open, log in
      • You can fly, walk, teleport, buy, sell, build.
      • Communication (chat, IM, e-mail, voice)
      • advantages (3D, media content, fast communication – SL fitness)
      • disadvantages (reliability, serious hardware requirement)
      • why do we need a SL?

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      Take-home message: great opportunities for patients and medical professionals as well.

      Second slideshow:

      Take-home message: Second Life provides useful tools to organize meetings, educate and learn without borders.

      Free e-guide about medicine and virtual worlds on Webicina.

      PhotoCalorie: Picture Your Diet November 11, 2010

      Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.
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      Although I can check the calorie content of any food on WolframAlpha, it’s good to have a site which focuses only on this issue.

      PhotoCalorie is an application inspired by the ideas of Dr. Mark Boguski of Harvard Medical School, who realized that the current methods available to track your daily nutrient intake are monotonous and simply too complicated.  As a result, people would lose interest in tracking their diet or stop the diet all together. Our mission is to create the easiest food journal on the planet to help dieters lose weight and monitor their diet with ease.

      Video Tutorial About Webicina.com November 10, 2010

      Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Video, Webicina.
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      After publishing a tutorial about using PeRSSonalized Medicine, here is a video that describes how Webicina works and how the medical social media collections are designed and created.

       

      Google Demo Slam November 10, 2010

      Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Google, Video, Web 2.0.
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      Google came up with something innovative again! They asked users to create videos in which they demonstrate the real power of Google apps and tools. And they do this through a competition.

      My favourite video is the one in which two US girls use Google Translate to order Indian food.

      I’m wondering how people would show the real power of Webicina.com.

       

      Indonesian Collection of Medical Resources November 9, 2010

      Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, 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’s the simplest, free, customizable medical information aggregator covering over 70 medical specialties and conditions in 17 languages!

      The Indonesian selection is the newest one in which the platform is in Indonesian 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.

      Many thanks to Dani Iswara, MD for the translation and for the help in finding quality 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 70 medical topics in over 17 languages!

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