Health 2.0 News: From Rap to Sequencing April 29, 2011

• Join The HealthyRT Experiment: Let’s Use Twitter To Drown Out Health Misinformation

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.

• Did Boehringer Mishandle This Adverse Event Report on Twitter?

• The New Era Of Interactive Health

• Rap video teaches how to recognize, treat sepsis in hospitals

• Meet Science: What is “peer review”?

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.

• Call to Participate in a New Study on Social Networking and Personal Genomics

• Facebook and the Rhode Island Doctor

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.