Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction July 10, 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.
An online community for Mayo Clinic July 9, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Community Site, e-patient, Health, Health 2.0, Web 2.0.3 comments
As you may know it, I’m a big admirer of what Mayo Clinic does online and not just because I’m a member of the external advisory board of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. Now they launched a community site with great goals:
We’re pleased to now be taking the next step, creating an online site to connect the global Mayo Clinic community. When you’re facing a health concern, sometimes, what you really need is someone who has already been there. That’s what this community is all about: connecting people who have been through the Mayo Clinic experience with others facing a similar health concern. Each year, more than 500,000 unique patients from every U.S. state and nearly 150 countries visit one of our Mayo Clinic campuses in Arizona, Florida or Minnesota for diagnosis and treatment. These patients, their families and friends, and Mayo Clinic’s 50,000 employees and students are part of the global Mayo Clinic community. This site provides a place for community members to share information, support and understanding.
The Mayo Clinic online community is free and is open to anyone, whether you have been a patient at Mayo Clinic or not. It includes content from various Mayo Clinic blogs, health and medical videos from Mayo’s YouTube channel and links to news articles about Mayo Clinic research and treatment advances. It also features a discussion forum where members can connect with others who have similar interests or concerns.
CPR in space on Video July 8, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Video.2 comments
Did you know how to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation in space? Well, if you have ever thought about that, here is the solution. Just click on the video to watch it on Discovery News:
iCard ECG July 7, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Video.1 comment so far
I’ve recently come across a nice app that helps perform ECG with your mobile. Though they are still awaiting FDA approval.
AliveCor’s iPhoneECG case was pretty sweet but, being a case, could only be strapped to an iPhone 4. Doctors content with their 3GS or patients who prefer to hug an iPad to their chest will be elated to hear the company is working on a more hardware-agnostic option for your iOS heart monitoring needs. The business card-sized iCard ECG mounts to the back of your iDevice using velcro and wirelessly feeds data from its electrodes to the AliveECG app. The app automatically records 30 seconds of your heart’s rhythmic pulse before uploading it to AliveCor’s servers for sharing with your doctors.
Webicina.com on Android! July 6, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Mobile, Web 2.0, Webicina.3 comments
After our iPhone app won the 2011 Medical App Awards, it’s a great pleasure to announce that the free Webicina Android app is also available in the Android Market. We wanted to let you access our curated medical social media resources in any platforms you use.
Webicina.com curates online medical resources in social media for patients and medical professionals for free in over 15 languages in over 80 medical specialties and conditions. This application makes it easier to access these selected resources on smartphones and also includes a Health 2.0 Quiz which was designed to help empowered patients and medical professionals know more about the world of medicine and social media.
This video describes how Webicina.com works:
From MedCrowd to VoxMed: New Communities July 5, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Community Site, Web 2.0.2 comments
I’ve been maintaining a list of biomedical community sites for years now and the number is well above 60! Here are the newest additions:
MedCrowd: Market Research and Insight: Solve problems by collaborating directly with diverse healthcare experts
VoxMed: VoxMed is the worldwide online community reserved for the medical profession.
Sequilab: a leap forward for genetic researchers using online bioinformatics tools.
Withings Blood Pressure Monitor for iOS July 3, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Invention, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video.1 comment so far
One of the most interesting things I saw at this year’s Doctors 2.0 and You event was Withins’ Blood pressure monitor.
This iPhone-connected blood pressure monitor made its first appearance at CES, but you’ll finally be able to order one of your own today. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, the $129 accessory costs three to four times as much as off-the-shelf blood pressure monitors, but integrates well if you’re looking to pair it with your Withings scale for a complete vitals management solution.
Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave July 2, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Ted Talks, Video.2 comments
A fantastic TED talk from my friend, E-Patient Dave:
Open access guideline for pharma about using social media: V2 July 1, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Pharma, Web 2.0, Webicina.2 comments
I launched the Open access social media guide for pharma campaign in which we invite you to participate and create collaboratively a good guide for pharma companies. If you want to participate, please send me an e-mail to “info at webicina.com” and I give you permission to edit the document. Webicina.com happily hosts the platform on which we can create this guide. Check it out here!
We are getting closer to the second version. If you would like to coordinate the Twitter, Facebook or blog section, let me know.
In this round, we would need negative and positive examples of pharma using social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, blogs, Wikipedia, etc). Please add your links!
