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

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!

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. [...]

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

Cameron Neylon rocks again:

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.

Mayo Clinic is one of the health institutes that has been open to web 2.0 for years now. Here is another reason for that, patient stories shared via Youtube.

A new iPhone application that allows you to zoom in and identify an individual bone or part of a bone within the full skeleton. It has been designed to accommodate medical professionals as well as medical students from basic to advanced level of anatomical medical knowledge.

(Hat Tip: ThinkAnatomy and Zoltán Cserháti)
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I guess everyone knows the great Commoncraft Team. Here is their newest video:

What can I imagine now? I enter a hospital and can check the profile of the doctor I’m talking with through my mobile, etc.

The application is Layar and was made by Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and his team.
Augmented Reality browser, which displays real time digital information on top of reality (of) in the camera screen of the [...]

PubMed: What’s New and What’s Ahead: Shamsha Damani, M.D from the Anderson Cancer Center collected what’s new about Pubmed, the biomedical database.


Digital Disease Detection — Harnessing the Web for Public Health Surveillance: New England Journal of Medicine opened up some space for web 2.0.


Wikipedia: 5000 pages, fully printed



Interview with Lee Aase (Ivor Kovic, MD): Lee [...]

A few months ago, I wrote about the e-Learning Faculty of Imperial College London that created a spectacular and useful Second Life tool in medical education. Now they came up with something innovative again: a score system by which medical students can see what they are doing right or wrong while examining a virtual patient.

Further [...]

I’m studying pediatrics day and night (last exam in medical school) so I don’t have enough time to take a deeper look at Google Wave, but here are the best posts and articles focusing on the medical and scientific implications of this new project.


Google wave and implications for science
Google Wave: The Possibilities for Patient-Centered Communication

Because waves [...]

I’ve recently heard about Project Natal:
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required.  See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it.  If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun — the only experience [...]

A new video describes social media and multimedia letter by letter.

There already are plenty of companies offering direct-to-consumer genetic testing such as Navigenics, 23andMe, DecodeMe or Knome. Now, here is Pathway Genomics that aims to offer “the fastest, easiest and most secure DNA testing available, providing information that can save your life” for $249. Quite a brave mission statement, but the service seems to be [...]

I’ve been writing about the educational opportunities Second Life can provide for years. Even if it seems to be very useful in distant learning, it has some serious problems (e.g. technical ones). Now it’s time to have a real presence in the virtual world (hat tip: Malburns):


In my vision, there are virtual case presentations involving [...]

I wish I had such resources while studying anatomy years ago:

A few other resources:

Visible Human Server: Discover Your Body
Think Anatomy: The best resource online
Anatomical Theatre
3D Anatomy Online
The Papier-Mache Anatomist


Visible Body
Visible Human Server

Amy Tenderich at DiabetesMine organized a unique event again so the The 2009 DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge was a real success. Here are the winners.
Grand Prize Winner (10.000$):

Most Creative Winner (5.000$)

Kids’ Category Winner (2.000$):

Congratulations to all the participants and the organizers!

100 Publications Every Graduate Student Should Read (Epistasis Blog)


The 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge Winners Announced (Medgadget)



Local Doctors ‘Tweet’ During Kidney Transplant

Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and UT Southwestern made history Monday. For the first-time ever, the hospital used the popular networking site Twitter to ‘Tweet’ during a kidney transplant. The hospital staff took note of [...]