Samsung Galaxy Tab in Medicine January 10, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Technology.8 comments
I predicted a massive role of tablets in 2011 and also wrote about the pros and cons of using iPad in healthcare when it became a hit last year. So it’s time to talk about Samsung Galaxy Tab which actually has changed totally my online activities in the past 3-4 weeks.
Pros:
- Flash-based websites don’t mean any problems.
- Multi-tasking works nicely.
- Has a camera (both photo and video), plus videoconferencing is possible.
- Battery life seemed to be over 15 hours.
- Much smaller than iPad, really easy to hold for long time.
- Has barcode scanner app.
- Reading medical papers, e-book and PDFs is comfortable.
- The voice-controlled search app Vlingo is at least as good as Siri on iPhones.
Cons:
- If it’s connected through USB to laptops, battery won’t be charged.
- There are still more and better apps on iPhone, though the newly introduced medical category in the Android Marketplace improves nicely.
- Price is still high (although there will soon be a cheaper only Wi-fi version).
- Other cons are normal tablet problems (no mouse connection, cannot use it in gloves, etc.)
I use the Galaxy Tab instead of PC or laptop in several tasks:
- Fast search (Vlingo)
- Reading e-books and medical papers (Adobe Reader és Amazon Kindle)
- Organizing to-do lists (Task List)
- Radio (TuneIn Radio), music, video, camera
- Twitter, Skype, Facebook clients are really user-friendly on Galaxy Tab.
- Medical databases (Epocrates, Medscape)
- Drug databases (iPharmacy +), medical descriptions (iTriage)
- Document editing (ThinkFree Office)
- Being up-to-date (Speed Anatomy, Fluid & Electrolytes, Google Reader)
What is your experience?
Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction January 8, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine.1 comment so far
If you are looking for interesting articles and news on medicine 2.0 or health 2.0, find me on Twitter or on Friendfeed.
For news and articles about the impact of web 2.0 on medicine and healthcare, please follow the Medicine 2.0 Friendfeed room.
For news and articles about personalized medicine and genetics, please follow the Gene Genie Friendfeed room.
Internet in Medicine University Course: We are in the fourth semester of the first university course that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students.
Medicine 2.0 Collection: I maintain the biggest collection of links and posts focusing on web 2.0 and medicine.
Webicina.com is my service that curates medical content in social media for free fo medical professionals and e-patients.
PeRSSonalized Medicine is the simplest, free, customizable medical information aggregator covering over 80 medical specialties and conditions in 17 languages!
Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.
List of biomedical and scientific community sites: More than 30 communities with links, descriptions and screenshots.
List of Biomedical video sites: Almost 40 sites featuring scientific or medical videos and videocasts.
Acne and Web 2.0 January 7, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.1 comment so far
If you have ever tried to find useful, medically reliable information on acne without advertisement-based websites or spams, I’m sure you had to go through plenty of useless resources until you found at least a good one (if you have found any).
Webicina.com now published a selection focusing on relevant acne blogs, news, Twitter users, Youtube channels and peer-reviewed journals in PeRSSonalized Acne, the simplest customizable medical information aggregator that is available in 17 languages.
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.
- It’s available in 17 languages.
Here is a video tutorial about PeRSSonalized Medicine:
Best ECG Mobile Solution Ever January 7, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Invention, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Technology, Video.1 comment so far
I’ve already written about numerous ECG solutions in smartphones (see below), but a recent Medgadget report beats them all.What you need is an iPhone with the special app, a wireless case and you can perform an ECG. There are so many great ideas which will probably never be used in practice, but this, I believe, will be an exception.
Seattle, Washington based Alivecor will be showing off its new iPhonECG system at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The company has partnered with Oregon Scientific to manufacture the units, which are expected to sell for under $100 a piece.
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2011 CES Innovation Honorees in Healthcare January 7, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Innovation, Invention, Medicine, Video.add a comment
Yesterday, the huge CES conference was launched in which there are plenty of Innovations Honorees in the healthcare category. It seems devices designed for hearing loss or damage rule this year’s health category. Here is the full list with details, and here is my summary:
- An In-Ear Assistive Listening Device that provides full time low level amplification with situational hearing solutions
- Hearing instrument system comprising an “industry first” proprietary digital wireless communication solution
- High-Fidelity Electronic BlastPLG Earplugs were developed to mitigate hearing damage and tinnitus sustained by deployed soldiers.
- Moneual Silver Care Robot
- Digital sports watch aimed at Nike runners.
- Pharos’ Cognit is designed for individuals living with brain injuries, mental disorders, and other cognitive challenges.
- MyTrek is a heart beat monitoring system that attaches to a forearm and pairs with your iPhone
- The patented ErgoMotionTM Keyboard provides comfortable and innovative typing experience.
- OtoLens™ is the first invisible-in-the-canal hearing aid.
- TabSafe is a medical management device that gives reminders for medications and activities.
- SmartBabyPhone, based on digital convergence, is a smart sensor communicating with any connected screen.
Computerized tiles revolutionize education January 6, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Ted Talks, Video.1 comment so far
I know this TED talk is from 2009 but I still admire the work done by David Merrill, an MIT graduate student.
MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
Bad Science: Golden Skepticism January 5, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Video.add a comment
Discover Magazine had an article about a British physician, Ben Goldacre who writes for The Guardian and is considered a gift to skepticism. His column is called “Bad Science” and he has recently given a short and interesting talk about non-evidence-based medicine at the Pop!Tech conference held in Camden, Maine. Enjoy!
2011 Predictions in Medicine, Healthcare, Technology and Innovation January 4, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Healthcare, Innovation, List, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.19 comments
I hope everyone survived New Year’s Eve and the first days of work, so it’s just time to share my predictions for 2011 in medicine, healthcare, technology and innovation. I would love to get feedback about any of these points so please tell us what you think!
- This is going to be the year of tablets, and I’m not only talking about the iPad, but also Samsung Galaxy Tab (which I will write about in details soon) and others. New medical and media apps designed only for these tablets will appear.
- As the number of medical websites and the number of people searching for medical resources are both increasing, online medical content curation will become crucially important. See Webicina.com.
- Prezi will keep on developing into a collaborative brainstorm platform besides being the best presentation tool out there. Although there will be an increase in the no slides zone.
- The number of medical mobile apps will increase rapidly (with Android becoming the dominant platform).
- Social media policies about using SM as a medical professional, patient or pharma will be published by authorities and organizations (I’ll try to initiate this process a bit in the next couple of weeks).
- Voice will be a critical interface for mobile and tablet apps. See Siri and Vlingo.
- Second Life has no future as free virtual worlds will become apparent. See Visuland.com.
- Social media analytical services focusing on medicine and healthcare will rise. See Newistic.
- At least one medical school (my prediction is Stanford) will implement digital-only classes without real medical books or materials on paper. Everything (without an exception) will be shared on mobiles or tablets.
- Personalized medicine will almost be there with microlabors, at-home DTC tests, etc. DTC genomic companies such as Pathway Genomics, Navigenics or 23andMe will publish more papers focusing on results obtained from crowdsourcing.
- Force feedback will appear in virtual worlds and telemedical solutions. Imagine apps describing skin conditions which you can touch and feel through the surface of the tool with force feedback. See examples from the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference.
- Empowered patients will keep on developing their own applications and tools for better health management. As it strikes me they don’t want to wait any more for healthcare developers to create useful and relevant apps for them so they will do it themselves. Believe me, a diabetic e-patient can design better apps for diabetes management than any endocrinologists.
- Impact factor will keep on losing its power and importance compared to article level metrics although that is not the solution for measuring scientific value of a particular paper (citation number excluding self-citations should be enough, IMHO).
- All pharma companies will have proper social media presence by the end of 2011 not because it’s good for anyone but because they will think they have to.
- By the end of the year 2011, we will all realize that improving technology and providing the stakeholders of healthcare with proper technology won’t be enough as there must be a balance between the number/complexity of technological solutions we use and the benefits they provide (e.g. having an iPhone itself in a medical practice doesn’t mean it will lead to any kind of benefits).
