Medicine 2.0 Carnival - 16th edition

In the 15th edition of Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival, Jan Martens came up with a creative prose of Medicine 2.0 in 2015, and in his last paragraph, he passed the baton to me in a most interesting manner,

“When I wake up I have to remember to read the first Medicine 2.0 Carnival of 2008 at Monash Medical Student. In my memory it was one of the best carnivals.”

Indeed, Medicine 2.0 is the unique blog carnival focusing on the relationships between web 2.0 and medicine. Many believe in web 2.0’s role in medicine in the future. Bertalan’s efforts have come a long way, and being intrigued with it all, i decided to force myself to get a better understanding. What better way than to host an edition! So here we go, while you treat yourself to a quality song “Waiting on the world to change” by John Mayer. (fast broadband required, subject to filexoom’s reliability)

Medicine 2.0 and Its Important Role (1)

U.S. Health and Human Services Director, Michael Leavitt, recently said:

It’s obvious that the medical establishment has yet to complete the jump to the Internet Age. Our health care system has fallen behind every sector of our economy, from car repairs to manufacturing to air travel, for no good reason….

As such, it has prompted many physicians to take lead. One such example is Dr Peter Beck, a full-time physician in California. His site states,

“Because healthcare is changing radically, physicians must embrace new information technologies, including podcasting, blogging, and social networking, to stay relevant and to keep and attract patients…

“Shopping and comparing” will occur on the Internet, and most physicians woefully under represent themselves on the Web, if they do so at all.”

He recently wrote an article about what medical professionals ought to know about … everyone else and the Internet. Intriguing post and video at the end of time. The pity is that, readers of his blog [and mine] probably are probably already web 2.0-oriented. Nevertheless, let us focus our attention first on what matters most: patients.

Medicine 2.0 And Patients (1)

There is no denying how medical blogs have their role to play in disseminating accurate reliable information over the Internet. This is what a certain patient blogger, tea n. crumpet, commented, “I have become a better patient from reading med student blogs.”

HIPPOCRATech features 4 health 2.0 links for Diabetes patients.

A diabetes patient’s possible cycle of emotions

Medicine 2.0 Tools for Doctors (9)

Highlight HEALTH brings us a Macintosh-only Highlight HEALTH Network Dashboard Widget. Really wonderful RSS.

MedSqod: Podcasting for Medical Professionals helps individual or small group medical professionals wanting to podcast learn how to make a 20 minute quality medical podcast, without podcasting taking over their lives. Certainly worthwhile to check out!

Are a chief resident? Or someone delegated the task to schedule residents’ shifts and calls? H2-02 can help solve your headaches. Dr Uri Ginzburg features it here at Medical 2.0.

Perhaps chief resident Bailey should have H2-02 to help her out.

Clinical Cases and Images Blog introduces us to the NEJM Image Challenge and shares some statistics about the (lack of) wisdom of crowds. Great work there! Related posts at the bottom of the page are fantastic too!

Determined not to fall behind, JAMA has released its own array of web 2.0 features on its website, summated here for us by Dr Ves once again. Bonuses included.

Physicians learning from patients’ blogs? Do you? Read on, because “Web Geekery has caught on in recent literature“, as Information Services Specialist David Rothman reviews some journal articles.

An employee at Nature’s web publishing department, the author behind Flags and Lollipops critiques NCBI/NLM’s Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man web tool.

We also have Bill Crounse, Senior Director of Worldwide Health, Microsoft Corp, sharing with us the the promising future in low-cost unified communication technologies in healthcare. One example is Lifelinks, a provider of interpreter and sign services for healthcare organizations on the Net.

Finally, more medicine 2.0 tools are featured over at Constructive Medicine 2.0, with regards to reaching a diagnosis. A dream come true for medical students like me! It seems like the hot topic nowadays (Bertalan and HIPPOCRATech). The scary thing is what will patients get access to these, like “Healthsumer”. Trouble for physicians? Opportunities for better doctor-patient communication? You be the judge.

Medicine 2.0 for medical students (2)

Medical Education Blog of the University of Saskatchewan has had lots of discussion regarding the use of medical simulation in health science education. I haven’t been to wards, but personally i would prefer real patients. Virtual Environment Simulators looks pretty cool though; be sure to check it out.

Neurophilosophy highlights an online encyclopaedia of computational neuroscience , which might be of help to students and anyone else interested. Experts welcome to contribute.

Fine Examples of Medicine 2.0 - The Best Blogs (3)

As such, why not hope on over to see who the 2007 Medical Weblog Awards Nominees are? A common saying is that to be nominated is already a great honour. Enjoy them, and perhaps have your say as to who will win, just like what Jan Martens has done here.

Also, check out the top 100 English written medical blogs with a uniquely created algorithm by Jan once again. There are 661 medblogs ranked in all, current as of Dec ‘07.

Dentistry 2.0? (2)

Dr Ves at Clinical Cases and Images Blog features web 2.0 in dentistry and an example would be “I need a Dental Plan“, a consumer-oriented introduction to what dental plans are and their benefits. Yet another example how web 2.0 is revolutionizing all aspects of health care, arming patients and potential “customers” with an array of information. Our dental colleagues are not spared from the spider web. (image credit)

Seemingly irrevelant (1)

Dr Martin Russell, a medical doctor turned counselor, also uses his site, this blog carnivals, and what they call the “Wonders of the Internet” to educate people about sleeping pills and cautions patients from over-reliance.

Future trends (6)

John Sharp, an expert in eHealth, personal health records, Web 2.0 technologies, offers his thoughts on what 2008 holds for eHealth. Will 2008 really be “Year of the Consumer in Health Care”? Only time will tell.

Paddle into the unknown!

Thinking about a more personal way to tell your patients routine test results, other than the current phone calls, and such? Try video email! Las Vegas internist Dr. Lorin Jacobs, M.D., shows us the way. He’s been doing it for 7 months now. To Bertalan at Scienceroll, it is his kind of physician, as he shares with us more about the Physician of the Year: A Web Savvy Doctor!

You probably have seen the dozens of paper-based health newsletters. Well, maybe how about a 2.0 newsletter… fully electronic, and based on blog posts?

Will privacy dilute as web 2.0 takes us into consumer genomics and healthcare? Deepak Singh shares some insightful thoughts.

A Youtube health education? What about medical school? Or the doctor and patient relationship? Belaray Dermatology reproduces a JAMA article calling for residency programs and respectable organizations to take lead.

Final words

Thanks to those who have kindly submitted. and to Bertalan for maintaining this carnival Medicine 2.0. Next edition will be hosted at K.S. Descartin, M.D.’s blog “The Story of Healing“, 2 weeks from now on the 20th of January. Please use the carnival submission form here. Past posts and future hosts can be found on the blog carnival index page.

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