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World Congress of Gerontology & Geriatrics: Live Coverage

Impact of Social Media on Health Care: Slideshow

Bob Coffield shared a fantastic slideshow with us on his Healthcare Law Blog.

PeRSSonalized Medicine vs Clinical Reader

A few months ago, we created PeRSSonalized Medicine on Webicina.com, a free service, to help medical professionals keep up with the huge amount of new medical information. Without having a clue what RSS is, you can follow your favourite resources, medical news sites and Pubmed updates in one place with just one click. You can read more..

Nursing Informatics 2009: Slideshow

Today is the last day of the Nursing Informatics Congress taking place in Helsinki, Finland. You can check the Twitter updates of the congress. And here is the panel presentation of Scott Erdley and Peter Murray. Scott also mentioned Scienceroll.com, many thanks for that!

What’s on the web? (30 June 2009)

An Open Letter To Patients Regarding Health Reform (Dr. Wes) It has come to my attention that in order for you to enjoy success as patients in the new era of health care reform, you must start working now to prevent illnesses that might befall you. Do not, under any circumstances, eat or drink too much. read more..

Twitter News: Image from 1935 and how hospitals shouldn’t use Twitter

An Open Letter To Patients Regarding Health Reform (Dr. Wes) It has come to my attention that in order for you to enjoy success as patients in the new era of health care reform, you must start working now to prevent illnesses that might befall you. Do not, under any circumstances, eat or drink too much. read more..

AllTwoPointZero.com: Science, Health and Culture 2.0

Pawel Szczesny had a great idea about visualizing Science 2.0, Health 2.0 and Culture 2.0: Initially I had an idea to launch a huge portal around “2.0″ meme – essentially tracking changes in communication methods across various areas. I wanted to quit science and start a consulting career in helping people to communicate more efficiently (new read more..

100 Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists

BestCollegesOnline published a list of the top 100 lectures from the world’s best scientists. I thought I should share my favourite ones:

How to use Second Life in Medicine: Free e-Guide

On Webicina.com, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service, I keep creating free e-guides for doctors in order to help them get closer to the web 2.0 world and make their online presence as efficient as possible. Now here is “Medicine in Second Life“, a free e-guide in which I provide step-by-step tutorials about how read more..

Science in Society: Slideshow

Cameron Neylon rocks again:

Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction

I would like to share my favourite and ongoing projects with you so I can give you a proper introduction to Scienceroll.com. You can also find me on Twitter or on Friendfeed. Medicine 2.0 University Course: This is the second semester of the first university course that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students. read more..

Fitness/Weight Loss 2.0: Call for Submissions

I’ve been creating medical Web 2.0 Guidance Packages on Webicina.com for patients and for doctors as well. Such a package contains all the quality selected web 2.0 tools from blogs and communities to online slideshows and wikis that focus on one medical condition or medical specialty. The next package will be dedicated to Fitness / Weight read more..

TrendMetr: Live Twitter Buzz

TrendMetr is a new service that might once be useful for us. At the moment, it’s hard to determine how it can be used in medicine. Well, it turns out we must talk more about medical issues on Twitter. Every minute, the dB meters update to show how many times a search term was mentioned on read more..

Picture of the Day: Stop following me!

Of course, it’s just a joke. I hope you will follow me on Scienceroll and on Twitter as well.

Improve Your Ultrasound Skills

Medgadget posted about a very interesting iPhone application, SonoAccess™, that can help clinicians improve their analytical and performance skills when using ultrasound. More on Medgadget… Here are some other tips how to improve your skills: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17: Day 2 Wii for Surgical Training Medicine via Nintendo Wii

Wireless Technologies For E-Health: Slideshow

Medgadget posted about a very interesting iPhone application, SonoAccess™, that can help clinicians improve their analytical and performance skills when using ultrasound. More on Medgadget… Here are some other tips how to improve your skills: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17: Day 2 Wii for Surgical Training Medicine via Nintendo Wii

World Congress of Gerontology & Geriatrics 2009

From next Sunday (4th of July), I will cover the World Congress of Gerontology & Geriatrics 2009 through my blog and Twitter account for 4 days. I will mostly focus on the genetics-related presentations. All the Youtube videos, Flickr images, etc. will be published on the HealthandAge.com site as well. read more..

Analysis of Internet Use in Catalonia Health System: Slideshow

I met Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva in Bilbao, this June and he had a great presentation about how the Catalans are using the services of web 2.0 and the old tools of web. Here is the slideshow.

My New Favourite Blog: NCBI ROFL

I met Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva in Bilbao, this June and he had a great presentation about how the Catalans are using the services of web 2.0 and the old tools of web. Here is the slideshow.

Declaration of Health Data Rights

I met Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva in Bilbao, this June and he had a great presentation about how the Catalans are using the services of web 2.0 and the old tools of web. Here is the slideshow.