What you write online is forever August 31, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0.3 comments
This is a great general rule. The Clinical Cases and Images blog shared a video in which the Dartmouth Hitchcock health care system described how employees should use social media.
Open access guideline for pharma about using social media: V3 August 31, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Pharma, Web 2.0, Webicina.add a comment
If you follow Scienceroll.com, you know we have been working on a collaborative open access guide for pharma about using social media since May. Here are the Q&As about the project. As we are approaching the end of August, it’s time to insert the final thoughts, comments and additional links about positive and negative examples for pharma using social media channels because we should have the first draft of the guides by the end of September. I hope you join us!
Webicina search: Interview about Semantic indexing August 30, 2011
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Now that Webicina.com has a new design and a brand new search engine, I thought it would be useful to show the basic features and I also publish an interview with Endre Jóföldi, CEO at WebLib LLC, the company behind the search engine of Webicina.com.
If you do a search for diabetes, you will see
- whether Webicina has a diabetes resource (a blog, podcast, Facebook group, Twitter user, etc), collection (Diabetes and Web 2.0) or sub-section (Diabetes Mobile Apps).
- You can narrow the search by “social media collection” (e.g. a diabetes resource in the asthma collection), “curated dynamic news category” (e.g. news categories featuring diabetes resources), “resource type” (RSS, resource, subsection or collection) or “languages”.
- Please tell us more about WebLib! What kind of projects are you famous for?
Generally we are building intelligent search solutions for our customers like the NIH or Vanderbilt University Biomedical Library. Behind the scenes we are also working on a semantic web knowledge base to improve our core search engine.
- What is the engine behind the Webicina search function like?
Our PolySearch enterprise search engine is a best-of-class domain independent semantic indexing and search solution built on top of the open source Solr/Lucene enterprise search platform. We have built several different search solutions based on this engine, which are all different in some sense based on the different needs of our customers.
PolySearch uses grammatical tools to find different forms of words and also uses our SearchComplete to offer health related search queries when the user typing his/her queries. It also utilize our medical spell checker to help correcting typos.
- How does clustering search help us find exactly what we need?
We face the problem of information overload after doing searches. For example if you search for cancer on Webicina you will get more then 40 thousand results. Our relevance algorithm floats up the most important Webicina resources, however if you want to look through the tons of RSS results, it definitely helps to filter it down to your area of interest. Like you will see only 479 results in the Nutrition category. This is a much more friendly number.
- How difficult was it to develop a search engine for Webicina.com?
We tried to make a very fast engine, what helps Webicina visitors to find all the information Webicina treasures. It is also handling the different resource types and languages so we think it can really improve the user experience. More than that we have still plans how to make it even better, so it is going to be a longer process, where we want to use the data how the visitors are going to use this search service.
iPhone 5 Concept Features? August 30, 2011
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Imagine the future of mobiles which will have features such as laser keyboard or holographic display.
Games for Health: Keynote Speaker August 29, 2011
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One of the most promising conferences this fall will definitely be the Games for Health taking place in Amsterdam, between 24 and 25 of October. You know how close health games are to my heart. I was invited to be a keynote speaker for the event which I gladly accepted. I hope to see you there!
Building on the successful editions in Boston (MA, USA) the first edition of ‘Games for Health Europe’ will be held October 24th and 25th 2011 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. More than 500 attendees from Europe, USA and Asia will participate in inspiring presentations, experience state of the art demonstrations and share knowledge in informative workshops. Conference content will be provided by a wide range of researchers, game developers and medical professionals. Also the conference will provide a central stage for discussions on how IT technology with a specific focus on gaming and simulation can contribute to the improvement of health and health care. Games for Health is the leading international professional community with more than 10.000 people in the field of health games & simulation for many years. Bringing together the best minds in game development & simulation and health care to advanced game technologies that improve health and the delivery of health care.
You can follow them on Twitter.
Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction August 28, 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.
Medikidz: Medical information for kids August 27, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
I’ve recently come across Medikidz, a fantastic initiative with a mission to help children understand medical information, especially diseases. I cannot imagine a better way to promote such important messages to children.
Millions of children worldwide are diagnosed every day with conditions that even their parents may find difficult to comprehend. Most children don’t understand their medical conditions, or associated investigations, procedures and treatments, and are often scared by what is going on around them.
That is where the Medikidz come into action!
The Medikidz are five energetic, larger-than-life superheroes on a mission to help young people understand illness and medical concepts. Chi, Pump, Skinderella, Axon and Gastro take children on a journey through Mediland – an outerspace planet shaped just like the human body – to explain the diagnosis, investigation, treatment and prevention of different medical conditions.
Webicina.com: New design, new search engine, new era! August 25, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Web 2.0, Webicina.1 comment so far
We have been working extremely hard to redesign the whole site on Webicina.com and introduce a brand new search engine that is powered by Weblib PolySearch Search Engine. They did an excellent job with this clustering search tool and now it’s much easier to find the selected medical social media resources you are looking for. I will soon dedicate a whole blog entry to the search engine with which you can find e.g. diabetes social media resources; other resources focusing on diabetes but under a different topic; news/blog posts/papers/Twitterers/etc from our database focusing on diabetes and also in different languages.
The new main page
The new logo
The new search engine
To sum it up, let’s see the changes:
- New clustering search engine
- New design for the whole site
- New logo
- New place for our award-winning iPhone and Android applications
- Site navigation
Facebook comments, Pharma and the hard days August 25, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Facebook, Pharma, Video, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
The 15th of August was a special day as that day all pharma Facebook pages had to open the doors to comments which led to some interesting issues and consequences. I thought I would wait some days before writing my post so then it would be easier to see the reactions from the top pharma companies. Well, here are a few examples:
iPhone preventing ER visits and other stories this week August 24, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, science, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.add a comment
As Facebook prepares to force pharma marketers to include comments on most pages, Google is actively courting the highly-regulated industry. Working directly with extremely risk-averse drug makers, the company developed a new YouTube feature for them that also can be applied for other marketers. For AstraZeneca’s Medimmune, the change was the difference between having a YouTube channel and scrapping the project all together.
In its April 2011 survey, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions found that 11% of US healthcare consumers use social networks to find or share health information and 8% use blogs. The respondents who use blogs and social networks for health purposes do so to comment about the healthcare system, to comment about doctors and hospitals and to share personal healthcare experiences with others.
- Anonymity in the Healthcare Professions
Epilogue: The patient was contacted by phone after reviewing this information. He as told he did not have to go to the Emergency Room. Instead, significant adjustments were made to his medication regimen over the phone. He was seen the next morning in our device clinic to reset the alarm that was triggered when his device exhausted all its therapies in one event. No further arrhythmias had transpired and discussions regarding alternate medical or ablative therapies are pending.
- Mediari is an app that empowers you to take better notes and communicate more effectively with physicians on healthcare needs for you and your loved ones. A patient-centered app designed to help you take notes on medical issues faced.
He said: ‘We may decide that we want to offer an entry to our services via the social media channel and under those circumstances, similar to the way that we have with our use of third party websites for access to our health and symptom checkers, we would make sure that we held patient information and any advice given in a confidential way, under appropriately signed off terms and conditions.’
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