Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction July 31, 2011
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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.
The Roast of Facebook: Video July 30, 2011
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This Facebook roast performed by Google, Twitter, MySpace, etc. made me laugh today.
E-patient Rap: Gimme My Damn Data July 30, 2011
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E-Patient Dave has recently given a presentation about the importance of online available data of e-patients and performed a short rap about this issue. And now he is remixed, watch it and enjoy!
Synthetic Life: Craig Venter TED Talk July 28, 2011
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TEDMED just released the presentation of Craig J. Venter, the father of the human genome project and other interesting initiatives including the race for the synthetic life.
Why do I like Google+ even in Medicine? July 22, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Google, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0.8 comments
I’ve been playing around Google+ for the last couple of days and I have to admit it I really love it. Why? I’ve been using Facebook as a source of professional information but I have to add those people I like to follow as friends even if in most cases we are not friends. A few reasons why I use Google+ now for this purpose.
- In Google+, we can easily create circles and start following people who we are not friends with.
- It’s easy to determine who can see the information I share (everyone, only circles, only people in my contact list)
- All Google tools are integrated.
- I can search for people with specific words in their biographies through Google.
- I can use Spark for following expressions.
- It might make it simpler to create private circles so then medical communication can take place.
- I can see the notifications even in GMail or GDocs.
This is a real professional networking site, while Facebook is just a playground for friends.
For more details and tricks, here is the Complete Google Plus Cheat Sheet infographics.
Open access social media guide for pharma: Q&A July 21, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Pharma, Web 2.0.3 comments
You may have heard about my open access social media guide for pharma project which we hope you will join soon! I discussed the project with Mark Senak at Eye on FDA and he advised me to create a Q&A so then people can clearly see how they can join.
- Why do we need a social media guideline for pharma? Why open access?
FDA doesn’t seem to be ready to give us clear instructions about how pharma can or shouldn’t use social media. So we, pharma bloggers and social media faces behind major pharma companies, should create a draft that the FDA and other companies could use for free. It must be open access so then each company can take it and make it customized based on their own preferences.
- Who can participate in this?
Anyone who is interested. To be able to edit the document, please send me an e-mail.
- What happens in this round (until the end of July)?
Now, we need negative and positive examples of pharma using social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, blogs, Wikipedia, etc).
- How can I help?
Let me know if you would like to participate and then please add your favourite case studies, cases, examples, stories about pharma using different social media platforms in a positive or negative way.
- Who can use the guide when it is ready or what will happen with that?
Anyone can use that for free.
- Do I get credit for my contribution?
Yes, all editors will be listed as ocntributors when we finished the draft.
Mobile Apps Regulated by FDA July 21, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in FDA, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Web 2.0.4 comments
FDA has published an announcement about regulations regarding medical mobile applications.
The agency’s draft guidance defines a small subset of mobile medical apps that impact or may impact the performance or functionality of currently regulated medical devices. This subset includes mobile medical apps that:
a. are used as an accessory to medical device already regulated by the FDA
(For example, an application that allows a health care professional to make a specific diagnosis by viewing a medical image from a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) on a smartphone or a mobile tablet); orb. transform a mobile communications device into a regulated medical device by using attachments, sensors or other devices
(For example, an application that turns a smartphone into an ECG machine to detect abnormal heart rhythms or determine if a patient is experiencing a heart attack).
Fortunately, some specific apps won’t be regulated:
- “that are electronic “copies” of medical textbooks, teaching aids or reference materials
- “that are solely used to log, record, track, evaluate, or make decisions or suggestions related to developing or maintaining general health and wellness.
- “that only automate general office operations with functionalities that includebilling, inventory, appointments, or insurance transactions.
- “that are generic aids that assist users but are not commercially marketed for a specific medical indication”
Pfizer Facebook page: Hacked! July 20, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Facebook, Pharma, Web 2.0.2 comments
Just when I read Pfizer’s social media playbook, I heard about the news that Pfizer’s Facebook page was hacked and people posted anti-Pfizer information and also angry language. What did Pfizer do?
Pfizer quickly responded by taking down the page, but not before their 24,000 fans were potentially exposed to anti-Pfizer messages and some angry language. Ongoing online brand monitoring is important, as well as a crisis communication plan.
Some take home messages about that:
1) Did Pfizer have a good reaction to this?
I don’t think so. This is Facebook, you delete the inappropriate entries, sincerely apologize to your fans and keep on publishing quality content. And also change your password. But you don’t have to close everything for hours.
2) Is this something that can easily happen on Facebook?
Well, if you have a weak and easily identifiable password; or click on suspicious links, it could happen.
Web MD Fail: Symptom Checker July 20, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun.2 comments
The Web MD symptom checker produced some weird results. When you have to answer questions regarding your symptom and you happen to have trembling, it will show you this:
They certainly included kuru in the final disease list and that’s why cannibalism is also an option as this is associated with the spreading of kuru.
