Medicine 2.0 Edition #29

Welcome to the 29th edition of Medicine 2.0 – the blog carnival that focuses on the integration of web 2.0 with our current practice of medicine. 

To read more about this fascinating growing field, check out our founder’s website, which has an entire page with many great links about medicine 2.0.

 

 

 

 

 

GADGETS FOR THE HEALTHCARE PROFESSION

Canadian medical student Vitum Medicinus deliberates on which PDA he should get, and he shares with us his research.

Newly released 3G iPhone, from Apple, is surely one of the contenders. monash medical student gives us his take on iPhone in medicine and education, showing us what iPhone can do.

 

One of iPhone’s many medical applications is Epocrates. EfficientMD reviews how well Epocrates works on this nifty device.

Digital Pathology Blog reflects as to whether iPhone will change medicine forever.

 

PRIVACY! SHH…

With the explosion of online tools like Twitter, Phul Baumann highlights the importance of following HIPAA and its rules, like it or not. 

Clinical Cases and Imaging shares some tips for medical bloggers so none of us get into trouble with employers and patients. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MANAGING AND ACCESSING HEALTHCARE DATA

 

John Halamka at Life as a Healthcare CIO tells us more about OpenVista and the prospects of open source medical records.

At Personomics, three data management systems are reviewed: US health data management system, Google Health and BeHealth. Check it out.

 

eHealth points us to Geonetric’s annual eHealth survey, “a worthwhile and quick survey which may give you some perspective on your own ehealth initiatives.” 

 

 

 

HEALTHCARE INFORMATION

Pharma 2.0 brings our attention to Johnson and Johnson’s new venture onto the World Wide Web. They have set up a Youtube channel featuring short videos on a range of health topics.

Browsing browsed upon a very useful tool from the Royal Melbourne Hospital website -the HuGENavigator, ”an integrated, searchable knowledge base of genetic associations and human genome epidemiology” – HuGENet is a CDC based project.

Neurotic Physiology reviews several science-, history-, and philosophy-oriented podcasts.

Nature has an article “Life Sciences and the web: a new era for collaboration”, which reviews the need for, and explores advantages of as well as challenges with these novel Internet information tools as illustrated with examples from the biomedical community.

OTHERS

WRT announces a great WordPress plugin for Academic Citations. 

Future Health IT highlights medical teleconferencing, after Mr Punjabi a CT surgeon performed a heart valve repair while in conference in 40 other surgeons worldwide.

Making your doctor appointments have never been easier. Health Management Rx dissects the anatomy of ZocDoc.com. 

Finally, Bertalan at Scienceroll asks us a pertinent question, “Why Health or Medicine 2.0?“

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