iDoo, Your Personal Mobile Trainer is Looking for Beta Testers! May 23, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Sport, Video, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
iDoo that I came across at the recent Smartmobil conference aims to become a mobilized personal trainer who even measures your performance. In order to reach this goal, the developers are looking for beta testers. It looks great and I hope a lot of people will sign up through the link below.
iDoo gives you the flexibility to perform the perfect training, anywhere, anytime. The app is based on a patent pending algorithm that uses several sensors of the smartphone to compare the movement of the user with the perfect motion desired by the exercise. The app features several exercises, targeting different muscles and body parts.
We are looking for testers to try out the first 15 warm-up exercises! Apply for the test following the link here, and be among the first users to try this revolutionary fitness app ever.
Next Stop: Paris! May 22, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Conference, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
Just like last year, I’m a keynote speaker again at the upcoming Doctors 2.0 and You, the event of the year in the medicine 2.0/health 2.0 space. This year, I will come up with a brand new topic.
On Wednesday, I will be the moderator in the session about big data in healthcare.
And on Thursday, I will speak about how crowdsourcing helped my way through medical school as a real geek.
Here is a great summary about what’s coming up in Paris. Until my keynote is published online, here is my speech from last year when I talked about the favorite social media tools of a physician.
See you in Paris!
Prognosis for Moms iPad app May 22, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Mobile, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
Prognosis has been one of my favorite Android apps as it helps me keep myself up-to-date whenever I have to stand in a line somewhere. It lets me read patient cases and solve them. The developers just let me know their newest app, Prognosis for Moms for iPads is out! It was designed for pregnant women to help them know more about potential pregnancy-related issues.
Pregnancy is a joyous occasion but the road is not always smooth. A variety of medical conditions can occur along the way – which are all too easily missed.
Prognosis for Moms gives you an in-depth understanding of these issues, via real-world stories presented in a cartoon format.
Access2Research: Global Petition! May 21, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Open Access, science.add a comment
I’ve been a supporter of open access research for a long time (Just 2 examples why: My Open Access Success Story and Open access social media guide for pharma) and it was a pleasure to see the announcement coming from the OA community about signing a global petition today.
Sign the petition to require free access over the Internet to journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research. This will require you to create an account at the White House petition website, confirm the account by clicking on a link in your email, and then sign the petition itself.
Please sign the petition and follow the movement on Facebook.
Medical School Life in Cambridge and Debrecen May 18, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine.1 comment so far
My good friend, Dr. Ves Dimov, shared a video about what it’s like to study medicine at Cambridge.
In order to show you the similarities and differences between medical schools in Europe, I proudly present the video of the medical school from which I graduated in 2009 and where I also do my PhD now. Here is the University of Debrecen, Medical School and Health Science Center:
The Story of Send by Google May 18, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Video.2 comments
Do you know what happens when you click on send e-mail? Here is the answer:
Win the new book about Randy Pausch here! May 17, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Video.2 comments
Are you ready for a great give-away contest? The first commenter who tells me at which institute Pausch was a professor wins the book Dream New Dreams.
In Dream New Dreams, Jai Pausch shares her own story for the first time: her emotional journey from wife and mother to full-time caregiver, shuttling between her three young children and Randy’s bedside as he sought treatment far from home; and then to widow and single parent, fighting to preserve a sense of stability for her family, while coping with her own grief and the challenges of running a household without a partner.
And here is his last lecture before dying of the complications of pancreatic cancer just to remind everyone what a great person he was:
Mayo Clinic Releases Patient Mobile App May 17, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
Mayo Clinic proves again that it has the best social media approach among all healthcare institutions worldwide by releasing a new mobile app for its patients.
The Mayo Clinic Patient app is an easy-to-use tool for navigating your visit while at a Mayo Clinic campus. The app also provides community information, including directions to local restaurants, entertainment, and much more.
Some of the features include:
- Access to request an appointment
- Navigation to amenities on the Mayo Clinic campus as well as in the community
- Up-to-date appointment schedule
- 24/7 access to your lab results and medical record
- Notifications regarding important information
- Up-to-date Mayo Clinic news, publications, and videos
News: From Doctors on Wikipedia to Twitter Guides May 15, 2012
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Web 2.0, Medicine 2.0, What's on the web?, Mobile.add a comment
Every single person in the world has a health story. As a doctor, my job is to help people edit the story that your health is telling and to treat your story as unique to make you healthier. It’s our signature challenge to become more efficient and accurate editors as digital healthcare begins to scale worldwide, which can create 8 billion health stories.
According to recent research that has been shared with Wikimedia UK, use of Wikipedia for medical information is almost universal among a sample of doctors. Many of them praise its accuracy, but they are aware of its faults and that it needs to be read critically.
Good Medical Practice (2006) is our current core guidance for doctors. We review it every five years to make sure it is up to date and reflects what doctors and patients think are the important principles and values of good care. Good Medical Practice is supported by a range of shorter statements which explain some of the principles in Good Medical Practice in more detail. You can read all our current guidance on our website at www.gmc-uk.org/guidance
Through innovation and technology, California think tank Singularity University aims to push the frontiers of progress. But what happens when high-tech advances end up in the wrong hands? Economics correspondent Paul Solman raises some disturbing questions as part of his ongoing reporting series, Making Sen$e of financial news.
The difference stems from a fundamental difference in the construction of the networks. In Facebook, both parties must agree on the relationship. Once you have “friended” each other, you are on roughly equal footing. This mutual agreement to exchange information gives people a sense of privacy that Facebook is repeatedly jeopardizing as they lurch from dorm room experiment to world changing company.
