A virtual consultation on World Heart Day! September 27, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Video, Virtuality, Visuland, Web 2.0.2 comments
As I mentioned before, I manage the social media presence of the biggest and most popular Hungarian Health portal, HáziPatika.com, and we have been working hard on a project that is just about to launch. On the 29th of September, between 16:00 and 18:00 Central European Time, two cardiologists will answer the questions of patients in the virtual world of Visuland.com. They will be able to enter the virtual realm through this link. Basically we wanted to give readers and patients a chance to ask questions, meet specialists, meet fellow patients in a 3D environment that is very easy to handle. It might create a brand new feeling of belonging to a community where you can do everything except a real handshake. I hope they will like it!
A video about Visuland.com:
A video about how you can enter the virtual world:
I will certainly write here about the experience and the whole event. Stay tuned for more!
Internet in Medicine University Course: A New Semester! September 26, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Web 2.0.2 comments
It’s a real pleasure to announce that the new semester of the Internet in Medicine course which I just presented at the Stanford Summit 2011 will launch this Wednesday (28th of September) with 140 registered students. In the first week’s lecture, I’ll give a detailed introduction to web 2.0/social media and highlight potential applications and solutions in medicine and healthcare through a Prezi.com slideshow.
- Time: 28th of September, 17:00
- Location: Lecture Hall of the Department of Pediatrics, University of Debrecen
The materials and some of the slideshows will be posted on Med20course.com throughout the whole semester. I’m very excited about that and also about the changes I made to the course structure based on the feedback I received from last semester’s students.
We will go through the basics of social media, medical blogging, microblogging, RSS, virtual worlds, using Facebook as medical professionals and many more relevant topics.
Read more about last semesters’ lectures…
Social Media and Medicine in Austria September 23, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.add a comment
We launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date easily. It’s the simplest, free, customizable medical information aggregator covering over 80 medical specialties and conditions in 18 languages!
The Austrian selection is the newest one in which the platform is in Austrian and the blogs, news sites, Twitter users and peer-reviewed journals are also the most relevant onesfrom Austria. Please let us know if you want to see PeRSSonalized Medicine in your language.
Many thanks to Dr. Michaela Endemann for the help in finding quality resources!
Some reasons why PeRSSonalized Medicine is unique:
- You can search in the database. It means you will find medical information only from a quality selected portion of the world wide web.
- You can personalize any of the sections.
- You can also receive the newest Pubmed articles focusing on your search term. Just insert your field of interest, a therapy, a condition, etc. and click Search. Then you can add the newly created box to your personalized medical “journal”.
- It is a community-based project. Please let us know which quality resources should be added to the database.
- Access over 80 medical topics in over 18 languages!
Health 2.0 News from PhD Comics to Social Media Tips September 22, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.1 comment so far
WellPoint, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, and IBM have agreed to work together on a new method of bringing medical evidence to bear on diagnosis and treatment. The companies will use IBM’s Watson supercomputer to apply insights from the medical literature to clinical information about particular patients; the system will then recommend the most probable diagnosis and treatment options to physicians and nurses, linking them to the original studies.
- Social Media Tips for Physicians
As with most ethical issues, there is a lot of gray and nuance. But in general, I think you are safe writing about personal cases from your practice if you exercise a certain degree of reasonable restraint. Write about your experiences, not as a form of personal aggrandizement, but as an attempt to share, educate, and converse with laymen and other professionals about disease processes and treatment options in the open forum that is the Internets.
- Khresmoi aims to develop a multi-lingual multi-modal search and access system for biomedical information and documents.
An IV system with creativity September 22, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Healthcare, Innovation, Medicine.1 comment so far
I’ve recently come across this fantastic idea about an IV system designed for non-ICU patients by Andrew Kim. Check his blog for other ideas as well!
Medicine 2.0 Congress: Speaking at Stanford University September 18, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Conference, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0, Webicina.2 comments
When I gave a presentation at the Medicine 2.0 Congress in Maastricht last year, I knew I would go to Stanford as well.
I plan to write a whole series about the projects and ideas I saw at Stanford in the last couple of days, but first I share some pictures from the journey. At the Stanford Summit, I was on the Knowledge Revolution panel and talked about my course that helps medical students get closer safely to social media. On the first of the Medicine 2.0 Congress, I gave a Prezi about Webicina.com and how we curate the medical segments of social media through crowdsourcing.
Kevin Clauson took this picture while I was on stage.
The Li Ka Shing Center where the Congress took place.
The first minutes of the Stanford Summit.
Organizers created M&Ms with the speakers' faces on them. Here is mine...
Dr. Jay Parkinson talked about his online practice.
The Medical Simulation Center of Stanford. The model was breathing, blinking, had a pulse, etc.
Control room where they record the medical simulations.
The best apps of a physician: Presentation September 13, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, presentation, Video, Web 2.0, Webicina.2 comments
My keynote which I gave at the recent Doctors 2.0 and You conference was published on Youtube in the original version and with French narration.
What is the future of Health 2.0 in Europe? September 12, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Interview, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.4 comments
Pascal Lardier, International Director of Health 2.0 asked me for an interview about the future of health 2.0. Here is the interview and an excerpt:
Basically, the medical acts remain the same: doctors will continue to receive their patients. But both stakeholders need to adapt and be able to deal with the rapidly growing amount of information available online. As the patient’s motivation is clearly more important (their health is at stake), they are more open to these innovations/developments while medical professionals use the internet and social media for other purposes: education, collaboration, diagnostic technologies, etc… Patients and doctors basically use the same type of technologies for different purposes. I’m sure social media, used with strategy and caution, will help fill the gap between patients and their physicians.
