Twitter And Health 2.0: A Visual Story January 22, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Slideshow, twitter, Web 2.0.Tags: doctor, eHealth, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Medicine, patient, twitter
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The VizEdu team did an excellent job when they tried to visualize the connection between medicine and twitter. And they included my profile in the special slideshow which I really appreciate. Check this flash/show out. They’re also open to new suggestions so feel free to add new thoughts to the presentation.
Further reading:
- If you’re new to Twitter
- 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
- 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
Twitter: Live Surgery, Sugarstats and 100 ways for hospitals January 19, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Hospital, List, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, twitter, Web 2.0.Tags: Healthcare, Hospital, List, Surgery, twitter
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There are too many interesting news and posts focusing on the potential benefits of Twitter in healthcare so I thought I would share these with you in a compilation.
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The first live-tweeted surgery (Global Neighbourhoods): Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit performed the first live-tweeted surgery. Can you imagine how useful it can be in the future in medical education? (And the monitor on the image proves only Tweetdeck could make it possible.)
Photo courtesy of Henry Ford Health Services
- 140 Health Care Uses for Twitter (phil baumann online): Many ideas that can revolutionize healthcare.
- 100 Ways for Hospitals, Health Systems to Twitter (Gienna Shaw, for HealthLeaders Media)
- Melissa Rethlefsen and Colin Segovis covered my favourite subject in their article, Medicine in the Era of Web 2.0
Twitter users now carry on conversations (called “tweets”) with each other, share information learned at conferences and CME events, and query peers about professional concerns. Physician bloggers Ves Dimov, M.D., of Clinical Cases and Images (http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com/) and Kevin Pho, M.D., of Kevin, M.D. (www.kevinmd.com) use Twitter to communicate information rapidly without writing a traditional blog post. Others use Twitter to rapidly share information gathered at conferences that colleagues are unable to attend.
To sum it up, Twitter is extremely useful these days and it will be even more popular in the future. When we are talking about online reputation, we will not refer to blogs, but Twitter accounts. Join the discussions there.
Update: As Bob Coffield pointed out on Twitter, it wasn’t the first live surgery “broadcasted” via Twitter.
Obama healthcare team and Second Life January 10, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Second Life, Virtuality, Web 2.0.Tags: Healthcare, obama, Second Life
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How many times have I tried to promote the educational opportunities Second Life provides?
Well, now the healthcare team of Barack Obama tries to see how such a virtual world could be used while reforming healtchare.
Draxtor Despres has recently participated in a community discussion on healthcare and looked at the potential:
Update:
Healthcare in Second Life: Youtube Playlist December 5, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Second Life, Video.Tags: Healthcare, Medicine, Second Life
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I just found a playlist on Youtube that is dedicated to healthcare in Second Life, the virtual world. Numerous videos about tools for medical education and sites for patient support.
An example:
