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PeRSSonalized Pediatrics: Selected News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube
PeRSSonalized Medicine is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place. N...
Non Invasive Health Monitoring with Mobile Health: Slideshow
Bart Collet, author of Zorgbeheer, published an interesting slideshow about non invasive health monitoring systems: ...
PeRSSonalized Pharma and Pharma Companies: Selected News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube
This week, we launched a new section of PeRSSonalized Medicine, an easy-to-use free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical c...
Doctor Patient Discussion on Facebook: Banned
There is an interesting article in E-Health Europe about how patients try to contact doctors on Facebook, the popular social networking site, and how doctors shouldn’t respond to them. In my “Medicine and Web 2.0” university credit ...
Most Creative Presentation Ever: E-patient Stories in Limerick
Kevin, MD has recently shared a video of Better Health’s Val Jones who is a fellow blogger of mine on Better Health Network, and who gave a presentation at the e-Patient Connections 2009 Conference. She used limericks to tell the stories of two e-p...
Health 2.0 News: Lifehacks and Patients
ePatient2009: Voice of the Patient. (SixUntilMe): Kerri Morrone Sparling has recently talked at an epatient conference. An Interview of @EndreJofoldi of HealthMash (Phil Baumann) FDA regulations for e-marketing of Drugs First Keas DiabetesMi...
Pew Internet Research: Healthcare FAQ
A few months ago, I wrote about the latest Pew Internet Research report that focused on online health information and the world of e-patients. I also shared excerpts: 61% of American adults look online for health information. In 2000, 46% of American...
PeRSSonalized Medicine: Quality News and Resources about Leukemia
I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resourc...
Google Flu Shot Finder
Google is now trying to collect information about flu shots across the USA. Here is an example featuring where you can find seasonal (red) and H1N1 (blue) flu shots near New York. An excerpt from Google Blog: You can check out the flu shot finder a...
TEDMED 2009: Summary
My friends at Medgadget have recently attended the interesting TEDMED 2009 event. I hope I can make the next one. Here are the entries they wrote focusing on the newest innovations in medicine. TEDMED 2009 – Day 1 TEDMED 2009 – Day 2 TE...
PeRSSonalized Epilepsy: Follow Quality News and Resources
I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resourc...
Web 2.0 and Allergy: New Collection
There is a huge number of online resources focusing on allergy and it’s hard to find the best ones so it’s a pleasure to present the newest collection on Webicina, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service. Allergy 2.0 is a free comprehe...
What’s on the Web: Telemedicine, Twitter and Wii-hab
HIPAA’s Broken Promise (e-Patients.net) Self-Tracking Wins at the Mayo Clinic (The Quantified Self) Physicians Using Twitter (iCons in Medicine) The latest Parkinson’s treatment: Wii-hab (Times Online) Could a real hope of improving the...
Web 2.0 in Medicine University Course: 5 Weeks
This September, I launched the third semester of the world’s first university credit course focusing on how web 2.0 can shape the future of medicine. Here are some photos. Yesterday, I talked about e-patients and doctors in social media. It wa...
European Hospitals in Social Media
We all know how valuable the work of Ed Bennett is. He is trying to describe how American hospitals are using social media. Just take a look at his statistics or his recent slideshow. But what about Europe? Lucien Engelen and his team have recently ...
Automated external defibrillator and augmented reality
Have you ever wondered what happens if there is a serious situation and you need an automated external defibrillator? According to Wikipedia: An automated external defibrillator or AED is a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses the ...
Slideshow of Jay Parkinson
Jay Parkinson, the “online doctor” of the Hello Health service published the slides he presented at the Feast Conference: (Hat tip: The Efficient MD) ...
FitBit: Self-Tracking 2.0
If you want to track your fitness, your diet and sleep, FitBit is something you will really like. Tim Stevens on Engadget had a detailed review with videos and screenshots. The wireless device that can be carried in a pocket or clipped to clothing, t...
A piano in a hospital
Lee Aase from Mayo Clinic shared an interesting story with us at the recent Reshape 2009 event in the Netherlands. They placed a piano in the lobby of the hospital and an old couple showed their talent. The video became a viral one and now has more...
Conferences about Web 2.0 and Medicine: The Big Three
I thought I would list here the best conferences that focus on the interaction between web 2.0 and health or medicine. If you know more quality events, please do share. Health 2.0 (San Francisco, US and Paris) Medicine 2.0 Congress (Toronto) E...
Personalized Genetics in the News: 3D Structure and Bar Code Reader
Scientists Decipher The 3-D Structure Of The Human Genome The researchers report two striking findings. First, the human genome is organized into two separate compartments, keeping active genes separate and accessible while sequestering unused DNA i...
PeRSSonalized Medicine: The Best German Resources
I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily, without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free medical information aggregator that lets you select your favourite resources and read ...
PeRSSonalized Medicine: The Best Portuguese Resources
I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily, without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free medical information tracking tool that lets you select your favourite resources and re...
PeRSSonalized Medicina: Follow Quality Spanish Resources
I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily, without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free medical information tracking tool that lets you select your favourite resources and re...
Will Twitter Change Healthcare? Ask it!
Obviously not, but it can provide us with some new solutions. That’s why I wanted to share askCH, an interesting project. AskCH is a one-of-a-kind healthcare tool. Send a healthcare cost or definition question in the proper format, and receive ...
Medicine 2.0 Congress: Recap
This year, I couldn’t attend the Medicine 2.0 Congress because I received my medical license/diplome on that very day. But here are a few links that will help all of us keep up with the great content attendants created. Click here for images,...
Crowdsourced Health Research
CureTogether just reported that they revealed a link between self-reported infertility and asthma: Patients at CureTogether who report infertility are 1.9x more likely to report having asthma than patients who don’t report infertility. This comes f...
Why should pharma use Twitter
John Pugh, who is a journalist, online marketer and healthcare PR, just published a deep and more than useful presentation about how and why the pharma industry should use Twitter. ...
Health 2.0 Challenge
My good friend, Lucien Engelen, among others, launched Health 2.0 Challenge, a great initiative aiming to improve healthcare. Healthcare faces a considerable challenge given: more demand for care, fewer people and higher quality. This demands for inn...
Web 2.0 and Surgery: New Collection
In the era of evidence-based medicine, being up-to-date is crucial especially for surgeons. The newest collection on Webicina, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service, was designed to help them get closer to web 2.0. Surgery 2.0 is a free compre...
