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NCurse Real-Time Digital Medicine at Christie Hospital, Manchester Social media serves as a powerful tool for patients disclosing illnesses Patients tended to disclose certain conditions: Cancer: 40% Diabetes: 16% Chronic Fatigue: 10% Arthritis: 7% Asthma: 5% AIDS: 5% Epilepsy: 2% Heart Disease: 2% Alzheimer’s: 1% Relay For Life of Second Life by the American Cancer Society [...] Read More
Jul 12, 2011

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NCurse 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. Read More
May 24, 2011

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NCurse 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 [...] Read More
May 12, 2011

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NCurse 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” [...] Read More
Apr 29, 2011

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NCurse 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. Read More
Apr 19, 2011

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NCurse 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. Read More
Mar 17, 2011

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NCurse 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 [...] Read More
Jan 19, 2011

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NCurse 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 [...] Read More
Jan 12, 2011

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NCurse IBM 2010 Predictions For Next 5 Years The Top 10 in 2010 Global Health Communication If global health communication was characterized by anything in 2010, it was the rise of Twitter and other social media among non-profit organizations as a way of bypassing increasingly irrelevant traditional media and taking their messages directly to their target groups. [...] Read More
Dec 30, 2010

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NCurse Mobile application search on Mimvi.com Med Schools Flunk at Keeping Faculty Off Pharma Speaking Circuit A ProPublica investigation found that more than a dozen of the school’s doctors were paid speakers in apparent violation of its policy—two of them earning six figures since last year. Doctor-patient relationship compromised by Facebook The VCL’s are software applications [...] Read More
Dec 22, 2010

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NCurse 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 [...] Read More
Dec 15, 2010

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NCurse 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. Read More
Nov 18, 2010

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NCurse Blekko is a new search engine that aims to remove spam content from search results by slashtagging websites. What to Do When Patients Contact You on Twitter Five ways your cell phone can save you Illustrated licensing tutorial for Wikimedia Commons Free knowledge is the foundation of all Wikimedia projects: anyone is free to use, [...] Read More
Nov 12, 2010

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NCurse Space Food: The Best and Worst (Boing Boing) Astronaut foods during the Gemini and Apollo programs were highly processed, because “low-residue” food meant fewer encounters with the dread fecal bag. To prevent crumbs, which could float into eyes and instrumentation panels, many foods – even “sandwiches” — took the form of bite-sized cubes lacquered with [. Read More
Aug 24, 2010

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NCurse Measuring Hospital Quality: The data presented is from The Joint Commission’s 2009 Annual Report on Quality and Safety Database of peer-reviewed articles related to the coverage of medicine on Wikipedia The Facts About Heart Disease through data visualization Centrifuge for Helping Women in Labor: An unbelievable patent How well can a screening test predict disease [.. Read More
Aug 11, 2010

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NCurse How Location Services Could Impact Health Care (Read Write Web) Imagine a hospital that could respond to medical emergencies armed with real-time information about exactly where all its doctors were located. Inside the hospital, which cardio specialist is closest to the 4th floor? Read More
Aug 4, 2010

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NCurse 5 Ways Social Media Helps Promote Good Health Ask Wolfram|Alpha about Medical Drug Treatments Elsevier’s Procedures Consult Mobile Brings Procedural Videos and Illustrations to Smartphones Should There be an App for Reporting Adverse Events? Today the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the launch of a new app for smartphones that will alert consumers [. Read More
Jul 21, 2010

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NCurse MIT’s Android optometry app could help you stop squinting all the time (Engadget) Brain stem hidden in Sistine Chapel painting? (Boing Boing) Detecting Depression in Blogs and Online Texts (Medgadget): “Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer-Sheva, Israel, have developed a program that detects depression in text without obvious terms like “depression” or [. Read More
Jul 8, 2010

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