Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction September 4, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine.3 comments
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.
Webicina’s Award-Winning iPhone App: Updated! September 3, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Web 2.0, Webicina.1 comment so far
The award-winning iPhone app of Webicina.com just got a new update. Download it for free! (Also on Android!)
Modified design, small changes in the content, better navigation among the medical social media resources it features. And new highscore board for the best health 2.0 quiz players.
From self-reported Patient Data to Mobile predictions September 2, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, science, Ted Talks, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.1 comment so far
- TEDxOverlake – Dr. H. Jack West – Self-Educated Patients and The Future of Cancer Care
“Don’t believe those that say you can’t measure the return on investment (ROI) of digital and social media programs – if you can’t measure it you shouldn’t be doing it…”
He said some GPs already offer consultations via Skype and may interest many others. ‘Then I find myself thinking that’s the sort of thing that will appeal to some people. It would appeal to me,’ he said. He argued it would be much more convenient for patients and GPs.
The Internet was reported to be the second source of health information after physicians, due to its accessibility and “easiness” of use. The most commonly searched types of online health information are treatment/therapy (62% rated it as always or often), detailed (58%) and general (53%) disease descriptions, drug information (51%), side effects (51%) and scientific articles (50%).
Everyday we find PLoS ONE papers in the news. Whether it’s a science blogger in the United Kingdom, an online newspaper in China, or a national news channel in the United States, we see a lot of media coverage on our research articles. In an effort to better track the coverage these papers receive, we’ve begun a Media Tracking Project.
Online patient communities structured around quantitative outcome data have the potential to provide an observational environment to monitor such drug usage and its consequences. Here we describe an analysis of data reported on the website PatientsLikeMe by patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who experimented with lithium carbonate treatment.
Webicina and Streaming Well Become Partners September 1, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Interview, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0, Webicina.add a comment
It’s a great pleasure to announce the new partnership between Webicina.com and Streaming Well, the leading European health video production and distribution channel. Webicina, a free service curating medical resources in social media will feature videos created by professionals on Streaming Well. Here is one example for allergy. I did an interview with Francis Namouk, head of Streaming Well about this collaboration:
How was Streaming Well launched and what is the rationale behind that?
As our chief medical adviser, Paul Stillman puts it “There is a real mismatch between the ability for people to search for information and the quality of information they find”. Based on this, my business partner and I identified a need for creating an engaging health information channel with professional produced content that patients (and their loved ones) can use to better manage their health. A channel where HCPs can learn about the patient experience and help get the best out of their consultation. We believe that video is the most engaging medium, and identified an opportunity to launch the first “Branded” health video channel across Europe.
How do you supervise the content of the videos? Are medical professionals involved?
Streaming Well prioritises collaboration with both commercial and advocacy groups to deliver professional and trustworthy information to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals. Our medical writers and panel of experts participate in creating video content that effectively communicates educational messages. All content is reviewed by our Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Paul Stillman.
What do you expect from this collaboration with Webicina.com?
We simply look to align our goals in providing quality health information to patients and HCPs. Webicina is a leading and trusted ressource for crowd sourced health information, and we are a leading European health video production and distribution channel.
We are happy to keep providing you with our video content, and hope to be included as a video partner for upcoming projects that might require our services.
Radboud REshape Academy September 1, 2011
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One of the best initiatives in social media and healthcare I’ve recently seen is definitely the Radboud REshape Academy.
Finding for our path to migrate into real participatory healthcare we come across a lot of interesting people, information, innovations and most of all questions.
Right from the beginning we started to share, with our network. We have been doing this with our conferences, our research, our lectures and through field trips made to our Radboud REshape & Innovation Centre for HC institutions, insurers, government and other people interested in changing healthcare. And of course our Innovation Centre.In setting up The Radboud REshape Academy (@REshapeAcademy on twitter) we would like to create a place, in real life and virtual as well that one could find peers looking or having information needed, the use of networking to create joined effort in REshaping healthcare.
Right now the following modules are in preparation :
1. Introduction in Participatory Healthcare (PH)
2. Communication in the age of patients rising
3. E-health = Empowered health
4. Finance 2.0
5. Community Management
6. E-patients Bootcamp Europe (with i.e. ePatientDave) September 28th 2011
7. Compassion in healthcare (with i.e. Compassion for Care)
8. Participatory Education ?
9. Innovation & Design thinking in healthcare
10. Human Resource Management for PH
Hashtags on Twitter September 1, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, twitter, Web 2.0.14 comments
I’ve recently realized how important it is to use hashtags when sharing content, ideas or links on Twitter. When I started using hashtags massively again, I got into more discussions and got more feedback. So if you don’t know which hashtag you should use at the end of your tweets, here are the most famous ones in medicine and healthcare.
