Medgadget Weblog Awards 2009: Polls are open! January 6, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Medgadget, Medicine, Medicine 2.0.4 comments
This is January which means the prestigious Medgadget Weblog Awards will rule the medical blogosphere for weeks. The polls are open now and I thought I would share with you who I voted for and why.
- Best Medical Weblog: No question about that. The best medical blog belongs to a person who I consider my mentor and who has been doing exceptionally quality job for years. Yes, this is the Clinical Cases and Images blog managed by Vesselin Dimov.
- Best New Medical Weblog (established in 2008): Jacqualine runs one of my favourite medical blogs, the Laika’s MedLibLog, and if you need proof why I chose that one, check her latest post on the difference between web 1.0 and 2.0 regarding medicine.
- Best Clinical Sciences Weblog: I’m a fan of scan man’s notes, but Clinical Cases and Images is unbeatable in this category.
- Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog: I think Ted Eytan, MD just rocks and Clinical Cases and Images shouldn’t win 3 categories (it would make things quite boring). Don’t forget to check out the blog of my fellow medstudent pals at TomographyBlog.
- Best Patient’s Blog: Undoubtedly, Kerri Morrone of Six Until Me is the blogger you should choose. She is the best example how an e-patient can become a valuable guide for other patients.
Many thanks to Medgadget for managing this great medblog event!
And one more thing, maybe the most important one: all the nominated blogs are winners. And I mean it!
SurgyTec: Surgical Skills, Tips and Tricks June 9, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Community Site, Medgadget, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Surgery, Video, Web 2.0.3 comments
SurgyTec, at heart a YouTube for surgeons, is a privately held company based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It aims to become a global community and video-sharing site for surgeons to show off their newly minted skills. It makes it easy for medical professionals to upload videos or slideshows and share those with the community. We can search for videos by specialty, organ/region, tissue, etiology, operation type, or technique. According to their mission statement:
Many surgeons perform original and high-quality techniques in their operating room and equally many surgeons would like to learn from these new and inspiring techniques. Up till now it was very difficult, time consuming and expensive to take a look in each others operating room and share practical knowledge, tips and tricks.
This seems like the space where Medgadget’s only original surgical video, showing off the novel closure method known as the “Chopstick Technique“, would have been featured.
More at SurgyTec…
This is a cross-post with Medgadget.
ZocDoc: Doctor Appointments Online March 2, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medgadget, Medicine 2.0.9 comments
I posted about an other online service at Medgadget.com. ZocDoc uses the advantages of web 2.0 to make it easier to find and book a dentist or doctor. Currently available only for Manhattan based clinicians, since its launch in November 2007, it has been mentioned in The Wall Street Journal and Venture Beat, and was a presenting company at the TechCrunch40 conference. Patients can make a search for a doctor or dentist based on the location, appointment date, the reason for one’s visit, or the patient’s insurance coverage.
Here’s what the website wants to provide to patients:
- find doctors and dentists in your neighborhood,
- judge their quality by patient reviews & ratings,
- book them online 24/7.
Medgadget Weblog Awards: Polls are open again! January 9, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Medgadget, Scienceroll.3 comments
My whole blogging “career” started with Scienceroll’s special mention in last year’s Medgadget Weblog Awards. Now I’m happy to announce that the polls of 2008 are open. But this time, Scienceroll is nominated in the Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog Category.
Two of my mentors are also nominated so don’t forget to give a vote to them.
- Clinical Cases and Images (by Ves Dimov)
- davidrothman.net (by David Rothman)
I haven’t been following the other two blogs, but I’ll from now:
MyDocHub: Rate Your Doctor January 7, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Health 2.0, Medgadget.2 comments
My newest post is up on Medgadget.com.
MyDocHub, Inc. is an Orlando, Florida company that offers a new online health community service. The website aims to anonymously review and rate doctors based on their punctuality, waiting room times, total time spent in the office and staff efficiency, based on members’ input.
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