Apr 22
TIME magazine released the list of the 100 most influential people in the world and there are only two medical nominees. Is medicine really that insignificant compared to music or sports?
Jan 30
Jessica Merritt has recently come up with a huge list of quality blogs dedicated to genetics. Check it out at US PharmD. I’m honored to be included in the list.
If you’re looking for another great genetics blogs, follow the members of the DNA Network.
Image credit: Ricardo Vidal, My Biotech Life
Jan 19
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.
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
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.
Jan 9
A few days ago, I was happy to discover Jay Parkinson, the co-founder of Hello Health, on Twitter and I thought I should help Twitter users who are new to Twitter but would like to join all those interesting health discussions.
1. Find a reason to use Twitter
2. Check what you have to know about Twitter
3. Find valuable people to follow:
100+ Scientific Twitter Friends (Sciencebase)
4. Make sure the people you follow are really valubale twitterers
5. Track your charts and work on to become a must-follow twitterer
6. Don’t miss a post at Twitip.com
7. Filter discussions by following numerous users but reading only the best discussions
8. Come up with ideas about how to implement Twitter into everyday’s healthcare or health management
9. Share your tips with us!
