Medicine 2.0
I’m pretty sure that 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.
We believe that 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. I collaborated with 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 here in Debrecen, Hungary, but now I search for universities around the world interested in a presentation like this one below. If you’re interested, just send me an e-mail to berci.mesko [at] gmail.com.
Medicine 2.0= web 2.0 + medicine
What to start with?
- 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
Web 2.0 and Medicine slideshow which was presented at Yale (among others):
Genetics and Web 2.0: the presentation.
Second Life, the virtual world and medical education:
- 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!
- Everything about Second Life and Medical Education
- Genetics in Second Life
- Medical Training in Second Life
- Medicine in Second Life: virtual doctors, hospitals, and of course, sperm donation
- Virtual Medical Center: the Future of Medical Education
- Take Part in Constructing the Future of Medical Education: Join the Virtual Medical Center
- NHS London in Second Life
- Interview about the genetic revolution of Second Life
- Electronic Medical Records in a Virtual Hospital: Interview!
Education:
- 7 Tips: How to track the information you need!
- 7 Tips: How to be up-to-date in genetics/genomics?
- Modern Education: Mind Maps and Second Life
- Web 2.0 and clinical genetics: in practice
- 10 Tips: how to search for genetic conditions
- How can web 2.0 help medicine?
- iBioSeminars: Bringing the best in biological research to the world
- 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
Blog carnivals:
- How to create a blog carnival: Step by Step
- Gene Genie: the carnival of human genetics and personalized medicine
- Medicine 2.0: the Blog Carnival of Web 2.0 and Medicine
- 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?
- 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
- Healthocrates: building a medical library
- Wikipedia and the Semantic Web?
Medical Communities:
- iMedix: find and share health information
- MyOpenCare: A Social Utility for Healthcare
- Blogabetes: Bloggers about Diabetes!
- SciLink: Science Connected
- SocialMD - Social Network for Physicians
- Digg-like site for physicians and scientists
- Bloggers: do you use twitter?
- Our Health Circle: a new patient community
- 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
Medical search engines, tools:
- 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
- Golden Links for Doctors
- 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
- Google Labs: useful features for physicians and scientists
- 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
- Youtube: Top 10 Videos About Genetic Conditions
- 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:
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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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