Medicine 2.0
I’m pretty sure web 2.0, the new generation of web services, will (and already is playing) play an important role in the future of medicine. These web tools, expert-based community sites, medical blogs and wikis can ease the work of physicians, scientists, medical students or medical librarians and can help patients how to find reliable medical information online.
I believe the new generation of web services will change the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered.
So I decided to collect sites, presentations and services that could be helpful for medical experts and patients. My mentors were Ves Dimov (at clinicalcases.org), Bob Coffield (at healthcarebloglaw.blogspot.com), Brian Jefferson and Ken Civello (at askdrwiki.com).
I’ve had several opportunities to present my work at many clinics and departments worldwide. If you’re interested, just send me an e-mail to berci.mesko [at] gmail.com.
Medicine 2.0= web 2.0 + medicine (focusing on doctor-patient communication and technologies)
Health 2.0= web 2.0 + healthcare (focusing on shaping healthcare with web 2.0 tools and concepts)
Must-read posts?
- 10 Tips for How to Use Web 2.0 in Medicine
- Open Letter to the Physicians of the World
- Dangers of Web 2.0: In Medicine
- Being Productive Online: Time-Management Lifehacks
My Slideshows:
E-patients will shape the future of medicine (slideshow I presented in Nijmegen, The Netherlands in 2009)
Web 2.0 and Medicine slideshow that was presented at University of Yale (among others):
Medicine 2.0 with the eye of a medical student blogger
Medical education and building an online reputation in the world of web 2.0
Webicina, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service:
- The Bridge: Do you want to change healthcare?
- Webicina.com: New Design, New Mission
- Webicina: Web 2.0 Guidance Package about Diabetes
- Microblogging and Webicina.com
- PRWeb: Webicina goes forward
- PeRSSonalized Medicine: Follow the latest PubMed articles easily
- PeRSSonalized Medicine: A free tool to track medical information
- PeRSSonalized Medicine: What are your favourite resources?
- Webicina: How to attract patients?
- Webicina.com: HONcode accreditation!
The first Medicine 2.0 University Credit Course:
- Medicine 2.0 Credit Course: 2nd Semester is Over
- Web 2.0 and Medicine Course: First Part
- Medicine 2.0 Credit Course: Reloaded!
- Medicine 2.0 Course Week 5: E-patients and medical communities
- Medicine 2.0 University Credit Course: Medicine in Second Life
Second Life, the virtual world and medical education:
- Top 10: Virtual Medical Sites in Second Life!
- How and Why to use Second Life for Education?
- Scientific Events in Second Life?
- 23andMe in Second Life: LIVE
- Nature’s role in e-Science: Second Life conference LIVE
- Famous Scientific Bloggers in Second Life: LIVE
- Live Coverage: SciFoo lives on session about videos in science
- Live Coverage Now: SciFoo lives on session about the definition of Open Science
- SciFoo lives on in Second Life: Web 2.0 and Medicine
- SciFoo lives on: in Second Life
- Live Blogging Today: First Medical Simulation in Second Life!
- Near-real Clinical Experience in Second Life
- Unique Medical Simulation in Second Life!
- Everything about Second Life and Medical Education
- New Educational Tools in Second Life
- Genetics in Second Life
- Medical Training in Second Life
- Virtual Medical Center: the Future of Medical Education
- NHS London in Second Life
- Interview about the genetic revolution of Second Life
- Electronic Medical Records in a Virtual Hospital: Interview!
- Forterra: Medical Simulations and Hospital Training
- From Virtuality to Reality: Second Life Fitness
Education and RSS:
- 7 Tips: How to track the information you need!
- 7 Tips: How to be up-to-date in genetics/genomics?
- Medical Education Evolution: Time for a change
- Modern Education: Mind Maps and Second Life
- In case you don’t want to deal with RSS
- Web 2.0 and clinical genetics: in practice
- 10 Tips: how to search for genetic conditions
- How can web 2.0 help medicine?
- TheLancetStudent.com: Web 2.0 for Medical Students
- Edutagger: Mix Digg.com with Del.icio.us!
- Learner’s TV: Free Education Online
- Pageflakes: The Teacher Edition
Blogs and blog carnivals:
- How to create a blog carnival: Step by Step
- Medicine 2.0 Microcarnival: Launch!
- Gene Genie: the carnival of human genetics and personalized medicine
- Medicine 2.0: the Blog Carnival of Web 2.0 and Medicine
- Labtutorials in Biology: A new blog on the horizon
- Mendel’s Garden #17: Blog Carnival of Genetics
- Grand rounds at Med Journal Watch: what is this all about?
Wikis, medical databases:
- Medical wikis: the future of medicine?
- Launching MedPedia: From the perspective of a Wikipedia administrator
- Google vs Wikipedia? No!
- Medicine in Wikipedia: Reliable Information?
- Wikipedia: Reliable Sources and Gene Wiki
- WikiProfessional Alpha Testing: a wiki of web 3.0
- Why to work in Wikipedia: I’ve been mentioned in Nature Medicine
- Radiopaedia: a wiki for radiology
- Ask Dr Wiki vs medicine in Wikipedia
- Medicine in Wikipedia and Citizendum
- Improvements in Ask Dr Wiki
- Why to use Wikipedia: answer for Eye on DNA
- Genetic Wikis
- SNPedia: DNA variations everywhere
Medical Communities:
- CureTogether: Patients and Researchers
- OpenECGproject: Open Source for Electrocardiography
- Labmeeting: It really makes science easier
- iMedix: find and share health information
- MyOpenCare: A Social Utility for Healthcare
- My Medical Career: Serving Medical Students
- Blogabetes: Bloggers about Diabetes!
- SciLink: Science Connected
- SocialMD – Social Network for Physicians
- Digg-like site for physicians and scientists
- TuDiabetes: hardcore web 2.0 for people touched by diabetes
- The DNA Network: the best idea of the last months
- List of the best medical blogs
- MyBioWizard: Your homepage for medical and life science information
- DoctorsHangout.com: Real Social Network
Microblogging and communication:
- If you’re new to Twitter
- Twitter And Health 2.0: A Visual Story
- Follow me on Twitter, if…
- 10 Tips: How to filter discussions on Twitter?
- Twitterview: The Future of Medicine in 140 Characters
- The Youngest Twitterer and the Future of Health Management
- What you have to know about Twitter
- Quality of Medical Information Online: A Twitter Discussion
- Twitter for Health and Medicine
- 10 Reasons Why I Use Twitter
- Tips and Tricks: Is Twitter reliable?
- Health Tweeple to Follow
- Twitter for Health and Medicine
- Omnee: An organic directory of Twitter users
Medical search engines, tools:
- Personalized Medical Metasearch Engine
- Scienceroll Medical Search: Preview the results!
- Customize Medical Search with ScienceRoll
- Scienceroll Personalized Medical Search: Updates
- Personalized Medical Search Engine: New Databases
- Google Health: The First Steps
- iCPR Lite: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training on iPhone
- New Search Engines in Medicine
- VisualDxHealth: Visual health care tools and widgets
- Internal Medicine Journal Search: Personalize Your Searches!
- Radiology specific search engine
- ZocDoc: Doctor Appointments Online
- MDPIXX Portal: Medical Media for Physicians
- Textbook Revolution: Free online medical books
- Visual Medical Dictionary
- AllPlus.com: Multi-Dimensional Search
- A searchable categorized directory of health-related websites
- NextBio: the search engine for life sciences data
- PediDraw: A web-based tool for drawing a pedigree in genetic counseling
- A great list of Health 2.0 companies
- Quicklinks: pimp notes, medical animations and mnemonics
- Doctors should Google themselves?
Podcast, Videocast:
- From Doctor 2.0 to Patient 2.0: On Video
- Telemedicine: In action
- iBioSeminars: Bringing the best in biological research to the world
- Sclipo: Teach and learn with webcam
- Pluggd: Medical and Scientific Channels
- NIH Video Casting
- Listen to Scienceroll! New PodCast
- Watch surgeries LIVE!
- MedPresence Surgical Educational Suite
- Videoconferencing Technology Helping Premature Babies
- Videojug Beta: Videos about Health and Medicine
- JoVe: PubMed, RSS and many more
- Medical Image Viewer: An Open-Source Project
- After the Dr. Anonymous Show
Open access and journalism:
- 10 Reasons Why Nature is the Best in Science 2.0
- Open access and the future of medical journalism
- NEJM is open for web 2.0
- NEJM: Image Challenge and other Features
- Web 2.0 and Medicine in the Medical Journal of Australia
- BMJ Career Focus: A Wikipedia wizard and blogger
Sites, links, news, reviews:
- Evidence-based web 2.0
- Health Information Online: How to check the quality?
- Why Health or Medicine 2.0?
- Web 3.0 and medicine
- Trends in Health 2.0
- BlogMix: useful lists for scientists and a set of new blogs
- How to manage a hospital in the future?
- Health 2.0? I love these 2.0 terms
Online Docs and Reputation:
- Call Your Doctor Online: The Future of Medicine?
- Online Reputation: Tips and Tricks
- Web vs real life: Advice for medical students
- The E-Patient
- The Online Reputation Management Guide
- Mayo Clinic: An Online Example
- Interview with Jay Parkinson, the web-savvy doctor
- Jay Parkinson and Hello Health
- From Doctor 2.0 to Patient 2.0: On Video
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Hello,
Your blog, and the Blog Carnival are very interesting… more especially as I write a French blog on a close topic (ophthalmology and Web 2.0) !
Comme je parle francais un peu, je dois créer un RSS feed pour votre blog.
C’est vraiment intéressant que notre subject est le meme…
I hope it was understandable… I add you to my blogroll.
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Will there be a Web 2.0 meltdown?
Definition of Meltdown – 1. a state of complete network overload that grinds all traffic to a halt 2. a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown
Considering content and community are king, I don’t think a Web 2.0 meltdown is on the horizon. It’s no secret that major players like Google, News Corp, Yahoo and MSN are steadily acquiring various Web 2.0 brands for very large sums of money. Predicting acquisition trends among these companies is not too difficult of a task for any web savvy marketer.
Although I just recently started playing around with some different Web 2.0 brands, I quickly witnessed unlimited potential for their continued long-term success.
Most current leading Web 2.0 brands fall into what I refer to as, general categories which are comprised of countless sub-categories. First, Web 2.0 brands introduced “categories”. Next, Web 2.0 brands will introduce “sub-categories”, which will allow Web 2.0 brands to stabilize their already firm positioning and ultimately become authoritative figures on the Internet.
It’s no secret that “keyword phrases” carry much better CTRs (click-thru-ratios) and ROIs
(return-on-investments) than “genearl keywords” do – when engaging in a PPC (pay-per-click) marketing campaign. For example, on the page I am originally posted this article on I notice the page’s title tag read “Web 2.0 Bubble Trouble?”. This title tag is much more suitable for this page’s topic, as opposed to something more general like, “Web 2.0″.
The same applies to Web 2.0 brands as the diversify their portfolios introducing sub-categories of their already existing brand’s general or niche category. Google, News Corp, Yahoo and MSN are strategically acquiring emerging Web 2.0 brands for a reason. At the end of the day, we all know what that reason is – to make lots of money!
My conclusion:
As companies like, Google, News Corp, Yahoo and MSN pay BIG dollars to acquire Web 2.0 brands they are doing so for a few reasons. First they are looking for creative ways to push new, in-house products and services to targeted consumers and businesses alike. I would have to argue that Google is leading the pack in this arena.
Next, they are trying to position their companies for rapid long-term growth, each headed in strategically aligned directions. In my opinion, all 3 are great companies and not any one of them is better than the other in regards to their directions. Rest assured that the overall concept, audience, and appeal of any recently acquired or soon to be acquired Web 2.0 brand is a solid reflection of the direction the acquiring company is headed in.
Like it or not Web 2.0 is here to stay!
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Here is something that i came across recently this web 2.0 based free service helps discovering newer scientific relations across abstracts. it provides manually curated and annotated sentences for the keywords of your choice.maps the extracted entities (genes, processes, drugs, diseases etc) to multiple ontologies. just play around with their gene, disease, etc entity types and you can actually track a gene or process across various diseases across abstracts
, check it out http://www.xtractor.in
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I agree that the plethora of Web 2. websites is changing many industries and in particular medicine. Patients are much more likely to be well-informed about their issue and options for treatment than prior to the internet and Web 2.0. The downside is that there can be information overload and confusion can arise as much as enlightenment. On the whole though I welcome the opportunity to discover more about a medical condition and the options available to treat it.
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