Health 2.0 News: From Android Interfaces to Wikipedia Hard-Cover Editions November 18, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Electronic Medical Records, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha.2 comments
Welcome to the Imagine Medicine contest! We are looking for fascinating medical photography that… imagines medicine. Nothing is off the table: portraits, group shots, happy shots, tragic shots, clinical shots, photoshop illustrations, macro, micro, and anything in between. Can you imagine medicine, showcase it as art, and make us wonder?
Health 2.0 News: Reporting Adverse Events and Lady Gaga in Lab July 21, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?, WolframAlpha.1 comment so far
Today the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the launch of a new app for smartphones that will alert consumers to the latest recall information in one spot, allowing them to track and actually see recalled products. This means that a consumer doesn’t have to navigate a difficult and cumbersome Web site, or number of Web sites, to get the latest consumer information.
But there is something else in the app that is extremely provocative. The app also has a “report incident” function that allows for a consumer to submit a report about a product that might be unsafe.
Computing Worldwide Health Indicators on WolframAlpha June 3, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, WolframAlpha.3 comments
I’m a big fan of WolframAlpha as it saves me plenty of times and clicks each and every day because it knows what kind of information I’m trying to find. According to the official blog, they just added data on health indicators for more than 200 countries and territories. The sources are obviously the CDC and the World Health Organization among others.
Data is also now available on specific types of health care personnel, such as physicians, nurses, and dentists, and Wolfram|Alpha can also compute per capita figures for each type of health professional. Check out the figures on midwives in South Africa or dentists in Iceland—or for a particularly interesting view, trying asking about doctors per capita in all countries.
Try comparing medical resources of Cuba and the USA, or contraceptive use in Chad and France. Regional overviews are possible, too: you can view maps and summaries of data on underweight children in Africa and DTP immunization around the world, for example.
Health 2.0 News: iFall and Marketing Hospitals May 6, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Hospital, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Ted Talks, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?, WolframAlpha, Youtube channel.add a comment
- Watch Live Surgeries on your iPhone and iPad – Coming soon via MDiTV (iMedical Apps):
- Juggle All Your Social Networks (Edelman Digital): A few great tips about tools that can help you manage all the social networks you use.
- Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
A team at Florida State University is developing software on Android phones to help detect falls and shorten the time it takes to alert emergency services. Unlike other fall-detection technology, this app adds fall detection capability to one of the most commonly-owned devices – your phone.
- Dr. A You Tube Site: Dr: A has been running a medical online radio show for years as well and now he has a Youtube channel.
Wolfram|Alpha Knows Your DNA March 17, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in genetics, Innovation, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, science, Web 2.0, WolframAlpha.add a comment
I’ve written about Wolfram Alpha several times, I really like it and think it saves me plenty of time while searching online.
I use WolframAlpha because sometimes (if I know exactly what I want to find) it saves me plenty of time and clicks. If I want to calculate BMI, Google lists me several calculators. WolframAlpha calculates it itself. If I want to find information very fast about a clinical marker, Google gives me resources, WA gives me the best answer in one click. I also use it for ICD classification, as it’s more easily accessible than Wikipedia; for epidemiological data and other calculations.
To sum it up, I think WolframAlpha is for those who perfectly know what they want to find and want to save time and clicks. For other search queries, Google is still the best.
Just to show you how useful it is in genetics and molecular biology, here are a few examples:
Chromosomes and many more. See this blog entry for more details.
Medical Test Data on Wolfram|Alpha December 9, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Semantic Web, Web 3.0, WolframAlpha.2 comments
Scienceroll.com readers know well I’m an admirer of WolframAlpha:
I use WolframAlpha because sometimes (if I know exactly what I want to find) it saves me plenty of time and clicks. If I want to calculate BMI, Google lists me several calculators. WolframAlpha calculates it itself. If I want to find information very fast about a clinical marker, Google gives me resources, WA gives me the best answer in one click. I also use it for ICD classification, as it’s more easily accessible than Wikipedia; for epidemiological data and other calculations.
To sum it up, I think WolframAlpha is for those who perfectly know what they want to find and want to save time and clicks. For other search queries, Google is still the best.
Now the Wolfram Alpha Team released a guide about how this unique search engine can be used for analyzing medical test-related data.
You can fine-tune the results even more by adding additional personal attributes. For example, entering “cholesterol tests age 65” filters the general population distribution to return only values from individuals 60–70 years old.
By adding more filters such as smoking status, diabetic status, pregnancy status, and other individual characteristics, you can find out more about how your test results compare to other populations covered by NHANES.
WolframAlpha Community: Medicine and Health September 4, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Community Site, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, WolframAlpha.1 comment so far
I use WolframAlpha because sometimes (if I know exactly what I want to find) it saves me plenty of time and clicks. If I want to calculate BMI, Google lists me several calculators. WolframAlpha calculates it itself. If I want to find information very fast about a clinical marker, Google gives me resources, WA gives me the best answer in one click. I also use it for ICD classification, as it’s more easily accessible than Wikipedia; for epidemiological data and other calculations.
To sum it up, I think WolframAlpha is for those who perfectly know what they want to find and want to save time and clicks. For other search queries, Google is still the best.
Now WolframAlpha launches communities and forums.
Some medicine-related forums and interesting discussions:
