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From iPatients to The Five Steps of Social Media Grieving
The Dual Online Identities of Physicians Through the Looking Glass by Lisa Emrich iPatient: The New Citizen-Patient? Automatic tracker ensures your doctor washed their hands Researcher Uses Facebook To Aid Crowd-Sourcing Science That’s when Bloom, who isn’t exactly the most tech-savvy guy out there, suggested Facebook.Collected in NCurse's videos May 24, 2011 -
Health 2.0 News: From Pharma to Health Games
25 Android Apps to Learn About Any Disease, Symptom, or Medicine Competitors Are “Best Source” of Complaints About Promotions Received by FDA Among FDA’s TOP three “normal” surveillance activities was “complaints submitted by industry competitors.” In fact, Gray said “we have found that industry competitors tend to be some of the best sources of information [...]Collected in NCurse's videos May 12, 2011 -
Tweet_Fit tweets while you do exercises
Tweet_Fit is an amazing idea that is similar in nature to Kickbee. Here are the details: Developed by a UK design student, the connected gym accessory attaches to the end of a standard dumbbell and sends updates to your Twitter account when you start and stop your workout.Collected in NCurse's videos May 8, 2011 -
Health 2.0 News: From Rap to Sequencing
Join The HealthyRT Experiment: Let’s Use Twitter To Drown Out Health Misinformation I’d like to get a small group of volunteer experts together – healthcare professionals committed to science and common sense – and have them read and approve links before they are promoted on Twitter. I have created a new Twitter account called “HealthyRT” [...]Collected in NCurse's videos Apr 29, 2011 -
HealthTap: Hunch-Style in Medicine
I’ve recently come across HealthTap, a new service that aims to give us personalized health information based on our answers for various questions. Currently it only works for pregnant women and the first year of life but they will open up the site for more conditions later.Collected in NCurse's videos Apr 27, 2011 -
From Patients on Facebook to WiFi Enabled Asthma Inhalers
Facebook friend request from a patient? (The Lancet) In the USA, birthplace of most of these technological advances, various associations of health-care professionals are starting to issue codes of conduct when dealing with new digital media.Collected in NCurse's videos Apr 19, 2011 -
TEDxMaastricht: Medicine of the future
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend the great TEDxMaastricht event organized by my good friend, Lucien Engelen. But here are some presentations that demonstrate how fantastic this event was:Collected in NCurse's videos Apr 11, 2011 -
Time lapse video of woman with HIV/AIDS
I’ve recently come across a very powerful video advertisement from the Topsy Foundation which was one of the winners at TED’s “Ad’s Worth Spreading” contest. It shows a reverse time lapse video of a woman with HIV/AIDS after HIV antiretroviral drug therapy.Collected in NCurse's videos Apr 4, 2011 -
Peer-to-peer Healthcare: Pew Internet Research
Susannah Fox at Pew Internet Research has recently published a new study focusing on peer-to-peer healthcare. Many Americans turn to friends and family for support and advice when they have a health problem.Collected in NCurse's videos Mar 18, 2011 -
Health 2.0 News: From Wheelmap to Tablets
Wheelmap: iPhone City Guide for Wheelchair Users The iPad 2, healthcare, and platform agnosticism Boy, 4, Diagnosed With Leukemia After Picture Is Posted on Facebook Philip Rice posted the photo of his son, Ted, on the social networking site after putting him to bed with a rash. A family friend, Dr.Collected in NCurse's videos Mar 17, 2011 -
Health 2.0 News: Cloud discovery and overhyped smartphone apps
Smartphones: More Vulnerable Than Ever CNN Money made a valid point in their recent article when they said that the smartphone is quickly becoming one of your most dangerous possessions. Because of services that make our lives easier, like online mobile banking and online shopping via your phone’s web browser, your smartphone has surpassed your [...]Collected in NCurse's videos Jan 19, 2011 -
Health 2.0 News: From Microsoft Surface to Gene Machine
New Visualization Tool Gives Real-Time View of What Scientists Are Reading Introducing Microsoft Surface 2.0—our vision for healthcare infographic – Social Media in 2010 year end review Great Story About Value of Healthcare Information The ER doctors were able to effectively treat her because she had her digital device which provided them all of her [...]Collected in NCurse's videos Jan 12, 2011 -
Best ECG Mobile Solution Ever
I’ve already written about numerous ECG solutions in smartphones (see below), but a recent Medgadget report beats them all.What you need is an iPhone with the special app, a wireless case and you can perform an ECG. There are so many great ideas which will probably never be used in practice, but this, I believe, [...]Collected in NCurse's videos Jan 7, 2011 -
2011 CES Innovation Honorees in Healthcare
Yesterday, the huge CES conference was launched in which there are plenty of Innovations Honorees in the healthcare category. It seems devices designed for hearing loss or damage rule this year’s health category.Collected in NCurse's videos Jan 7, 2011 -
Health 2.0 News: From WHO to Medical Songs
Implementing Twitter in a Health Sciences Library Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs AIDS Drugs Lower the Risk of HIV Infection Synthetic Cell Blood Test for Alzheimer’s FDA Approves Botox for Migraines Taking the Resuscitation Out of CPR The FDA Restricts Avandia Blood Test for Heart Attack Predicting IVF Success Artificial Ovary Creating iPS Cells Safer and Faster [...]Collected in NCurse's videos Dec 15, 2010 -
Health 2.0 News: From Android Interfaces to Wikipedia Hard-Cover Editions
Google Celebrates Discovery of X-rays With Special Doodle New Medical Calculators in Wolfram|Alpha Wikipedia hard-cover editions now available Top 10 EMR and operational iPhone medical apps Imagine Medicine: The Photography / Photoshop Contest Welcome to the Imagine Medicine contest! We are looking for fascinating medical photography that… imagines medicine.Collected in NCurse's videos Nov 18, 2010 -
Engaging Medical Advertisement about Household Injuries
A unique new campaign, Popcorn from St John Ambulance, was designed to help people understand the importance of learning how to be the difference between life and death in an emergency in the cinema.Collected in NCurse's videos Nov 8, 2010 -
Health 2.0 News: From iBleep to Butter
Figuring out figures in scientific papers: new search / ranking method outline in PLoS One paper: A new search engine for figures Doctoring the Web: A plastic surgeon has positive online reviews. But not from that patient who died.Collected in NCurse's videos Oct 20, 2010 -
Mobile Health News and Innovations
Recently, more and more incredible mobile health applications and solutions have been coming to the market so I thought I would share some of these in one entry. First, here is Instant Heart Rate, an Android app which I use myself.Collected in NCurse's videos Oct 13, 2010 -
Health and Sound: TED Talk
Julian Treasure had an interesting talk about the relationship between the sounds around us and our health. Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health — even costing lives.Collected in NCurse's videos Sep 28, 2010
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May 24, 2011