Best CAPTCHA ever November 9, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun.3 comments
I’m sure you have come across many CAPTCHAs in your online life:
A CAPTCHA or Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer.
Well, this captcha is far the most complicated one:
Engaging Medical Advertisement about Household Injuries November 8, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Video.2 comments
A unique new campaign, Popcorn from St John Ambulance, was designed to help people understand the importance of learning how to be the difference between life and death in an emergency in the cinema.
Video Tutorial about PeRSSonalized Medicine November 7, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in PeRSSonalized Medicine, Video, Webicina.2 comments
PeRSSonalized Medicine is the simplest, free, customizable, multi-lingual medical information aggregator that features over 70 medical topics and thousands of resources in over 16 languages.
Now this video tutorial is meant to help you discover all the opportunities it provides.
HEALTHmap Global Disease Tracker at TEDMED November 5, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Video, Web 2.0.add a comment
The Medgadget Team did an interview at TEDMED about HEALTHmap, the Global Disease Tracker.
Sleep and Web 2.0: Sleep health and disorders in social media November 4, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.3 comments
The web is really rich in content related to sleep, healthy sleep, sleep disorders and more. Webicina’s new Sleep and Web 2.0 collection features social media resources/applications selected by professionals focusing on these important issues. Blogs, podcasts, news sites, communities, mobile apps and many more.
PeRSSonalized Sleep, the simplest, free, customizable, multi-lingual medical information aggregator will also let you follow these resources easily in a personalized way.
Here is table of contents:
- News and Information on Sleep
- Sleep in the Blogosphere
- Sleep Podcasts and Intreviews
- Sleep Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums
- Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed
- Sleep Wikis
- Sleep videos, animations and videocasts
- Mobile Applications
- Social Bookmarking
- Medical Search Engines
- Slideshows about Sleep
Feel free to share any of these resources and let us know if you think others should be added.
Most doctors are behind the learning curve on genetic tests November 4, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in genetics, Personalized medicine.2 comments
My old friend, Steve Murphy, MD shared a recent USA Today article with me in which he is also featured. A few excerpts:
“The majority of people we see have a very strong family history of X, Y or Z disease,” says Murphy, who’ll be 34 this week. He doesn’t bring up genetic testing until after taking a detailed personal and family medical history and assessing such risk factors as cholesterol and blood pressure. “I tell them there are lots of ways to dig deeper. Then I also tell them the limitations.”
On the other hand, Topol says, doctors have ordered 250,000 $100 tests for a gene called KIF6, tests that were aggressively marketed. One KIF6 variation was thought to raise heart disease risk by up to 55%, but, Topol says, a study this month in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shot that down.
Real-looking Android: Actroid-F November 4, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Video, Virtuality.4 comments
It’s truly unbelievable, we are not far from having Android nurses in hospitals.
Quuertle: Relationship-Driven Biomedical Search November 3, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical Search, science, Video, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
Quertle is a free website for searching the biomedical literature using cutting-edge, semantic-driven text analytics.
It’s easy – Quertle’s friendly interface makes it simple to search and refine results.
It’s powerful – Using advanced semantics, Quertle finds quality results, not just long lists.
It’s inclusive – All of PubMed, a growing number of full-text documents, news, and more.
Internet in Medicine University Course: E-patients and Medical Communities November 2, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Web 2.0.4 comments
The 5th week of the Internet in Medicine university accredited course was focusing on e-patients and medical communities.
First slideshow: The world of e-patients
- Who is a good patient? (referring to I am a good patient, believe it or not; Alejandro R Jadad, Carlos A Rizo, Murray W Enkin; BMJ 2003;326:1293-1295 (14 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7402.1293 )
- Types of patients: the powerful other; external controller, internal controller or google patient or brainsucker or googlers
- An e-patient is equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged, equal and expert.
- Examples (several stories) including maartensjourney.com, Jen, Kerri and many more
- What do e-patients use? Websites (Web MD), blogs (fightpompe.com, sixuntilme.com); Second Life (Healthinfo Island), services (sugarstats.com or traineo.com)
- Community sites:
- Patientslikeme.com: Featuring the research they’re doing
- imedix.com: real-time chat
- dlife.com: biggest diabetic community
- What to do with medical charts and papers? Introduction to the world of personal health records (Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault).
- How does a community work? I posted a message on Twitter, Kerri replied to it and made a video message for the students.
Many thanks to e-Patient Dave deBronkart who also had his voice heard:
Other videos from e-patients:
- Statistics about how patients use the web (source is Pew Internet Project Survey)
- How to help e-patients as doctors (don’t use jargons, be patient, show credible sites focusing on medically reliable information)
- How to judge the quality of a medical website, step-by-step. Using Webicina, HONcode, HBCE.
Take-home message:
Physicians of the 21st century must be qualified to meet the expectations of e-patients. They’re the new generation of patients.
Second slideshow: Doctors in social media
- What is social media?
- Traditional vs social media (pros and cons)
- I have an opinion and post it online, but others have their own opinions as well
- It becomes hard to find information and we need places/sites where information is collected and selected by other experts and collegues.
- How to find a collegue or get answer for a medical question? By using telephone, Google or Facebook? Certainly not…
- We need medical community sites
- Examples: Tiromed.com, Sermo.com, Nature Network and many more.
- Microblogging (Twitter and Friendfeed)
- Advantages of medical communities, disadvantages
- Privacy issues: can you communicate with patients online?
- Facebook stats and optimal privacy settings for doctors in Facebook
Take-home message:
Without properly designed strategy, don’t even think about using social media in your practice.
Lectures this semester:
ALS Research Through Social Media November 2, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, science, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
I’ve recently come across ALSUntangled.com, a site that aims to use social media for coordinating research on ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Check out the list of completed investigations.
ALSUntangled has been in existence for 15 months. Our NING consists of ALS clinician scientists from across six countries, participating in 32 active discussions. We have published five investigations on six different alternative and off-label treatment options. We have created this website with hopes it will make it easier for clinicians, scientists and PALS to find us and to interact.
