Health 2.0 News: From Rap to Sequencing April 29, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Health, Music, Web 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Health 2.0, Video, Fun, What's on the web?.add a comment
I’d like to get a small group of volunteer experts together – healthcare professionals committed to science and common sense – and have them read and approve links before they are promoted on Twitter. I have created a new Twitter account called “HealthyRT” – the volunteer experts will have access to this account and can promote content that is medically sound.
When the science you learned in school and the science you read in the newspaper don’t quite match up, the Meet Science series is here to help, providing quick run-downs of oft-referenced concepts, controversies, and tools that aren’t always well-explained by the media.
As we work to get our fellow physicians to emerge from the shadows, the last thing we need is a social health horror story. This week a Rhode Island physician was formally reprimanded for breaching patient confidentiality on Facebook. You can get catch up with the core story on MSNBC or read KevinMD’s nice analysis.
Open-Access Social Media Guide for Pharma: Want to join? April 28, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Web 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Health 2.0, Open Access, Pharma.6 comments
I’ve been planning to launch this project for some time but before launching it officially I wanted to get feedback from some companies I spoke at about this important topic. So here is the deal. I would like to create collaboratively an open-access set of guidelines that pharma companies could use for free and personalize for their own needs and preferences. I believe we (medical professionals and patients) have to know how the pharma sector do and should not use social media and vica versa.
Let’s get together and please let me know if you think you would like to contribute to that. Myself, I would cover the Wikipedia usage section but I would need participants focusing on pharma and Twitter, blogs or Facebook, etc.
Please let me know what you think! If there are enough participants, Webicina.com would happily host the platform on which we can create this guide.
An excerpt from one of my recent Prezis:
Medicine 2.0 Congress in Stanford April 28, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Conference, Medicine 2.0 Congress, Video.1 comment so far
Medicine 2.0 Congress taking place at Standford this September is one of the best medical/social media conferences this year. I’ll speak at the Stanford Summit and at the Congress as well. I hope to see you there, but for this, don’t forget to register!
Here I talk about one of my topics, digital literacy in medical education:
HealthTap: Hunch-Style in Medicine April 27, 2011
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I’ve recently come across HealthTap, a new service that aims to give us personalized health information based on our answers for various questions. Currently it only works for pregnant women and the first year of life but they will open up the site for more conditions later. An excerpt from an article:
The idea behind HealthTap isn’t to help visitors self-diagnose that ache in their side or that lump under their skin, Gutman emphasizes—it’s simply to help connect them with trusted physicians and prepare them to ask smarter questions when they get to the doctor’s office. “We are not building technology to replace physicians, but to empower patients to find information in collaboration with physicians,” says the CEO. In fact, a big part of the site is devoted to Facebook-like profiles for individual physicians, who can answer questions and upload short health tips. Users can contact doctors directly through the site, and doctors can refer patients to their pages on the site for supplemental information—which turns HealthTap into a combination lead-generation engine and pamphlet counter for medical practices. In an essay for Forbes, published yesterday, Gutman calls the site a harbinger of a new era of “interactive health.”
Interview about Crowdsourcing in Medicine on Al Jazeera English April 27, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Interview, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, twitter, Video, Web 2.0.3 comments
I’ve recently had a live interview on Al Jazeera English about crowdsourcing a diagnosis on Twitter. I really enjoyed the discussion and I hope you will enjoy it too. Here is the article about it and you can watch the interview on my Facebook profile.
Debrecen-based Bertalan Meskó, a medical doctor who tweets under the name @Berci and has more than 6,000 followers, reported on his blog [en] that he was listed among the Top 10 Medical Tweeters on Project IVLine. He wrote this about his Twitter experience: “Whenever I have a question about my profession, PhD, or social media, generally I receive a valid and relevant answer in minutes.
Webicina iPhone app won the 2011 Medical App Awards! April 26, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Mobile, Web 2.0, Webicina.5 comments
One of my favourite blogs focusing on medical applications, Scrubdin, held the 2011 Medical App Awards and it’s a great pleasure to announce that the free Webicina iPhone app that curates medical social media resources won the Most Innovative App category. Thank you very much for the support! We will keep on improving the application.
Please see more information about the free Webicina iPhone app here.
Doctors 2.0 and You conference on Video! April 24, 2011
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As I mentioned before, I’ll attend Doctors 2.0 and You taking place in Paris between 22 and 23 of June. I’ll give a presentation so see you there! Now here is the trailer:
MDSNe: learning community for verified healthcare professionals April 23, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Community Site, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
There are over 50 (!) biomedical community sites in my constantly updated list. Here is the newest addition, MDSNe:
MDSNe is a free social networking and peer-to-peer learning community for verified healthcare professionals based in Europe.
MDSNe is for all types of healthcare professionals. Physicians. Nurses. Nurses Practitioners. Pharmacists. And more!
MDSNe creates an atmosphere of openness and trust, enabling peer-to-peer learning in a safe and secure educational environment .
Visiting Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Companies April 22, 2011
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When I had a free test at Navigenics and Pathway Genomics, I had a chance to visit the Navigenics HQ as well in San Francisco. Now Daniel MacArthur visited the 23andMe and Complete Genomics HQs.
I was graciously received by Shirley Wu, who gave me the grand tour, and various members of the 23andMe science team (especially Nick Eriksson and Tom Do) then uncomplainingly put up with my questions for what must have seemed like hours. The visit reinforced my overall impression of the company: this is a group of very smart people working with an increasingly impressive customer data-set on some seriously interesting problems. Their recently announced discovery of two novel genetic regions associated with Parkinson’s disease (due for publication in the near future) is a taste of what’s to come.
Being Interviewed on Al Jazeera English Today! April 21, 2011
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I was asked to give an interview today at 19:30 GMT on Al Jazeera English about crowdsourcing in medicine. I plan to tell some stories about how I have been using social media to build valid medical communities where I get answers for my specific medical/clinical questions. I’ve recently covered this important issue on my blog: Crowdsourcing in medicine via Twitter
Al Jazeera’s new, interactive TV program called The Stream is a social media community with its own daily television program and will tap into the extraordinary potential of this exciting new medium to disseminate news. The Stream will be an aggregator of online sources and discussion, seeking out unheard voices, new perspectives from people on the ground and untold angles related to the most compelling stories of the day.
The show will be available in more than 200 million households in over 89 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.
