Medgadget just featured a video describing how EMG (electromyography) could be used in tools created for people with disabilities. Here is an excerpt from the Microsoft announcement:

Many human-computer interaction technologies are currently mediated by physical transducers such as mice, keyboards, pens, dials, and touch-sensitive surfaces. While these transducers have enabled powerful interaction paradigms and leverage [...]

Whenever I talk about medical professionals using social media, people are surprised by what I say. Most of people think they can hide online and never have to reveal their real identity. I think they are wrong. In the online world, it’s much easier to find out private information about someone who wasn’t cautious enough [...]

Fritz Kahn, a German gynaecologist born in 1888, was a real genius of medical illustrations.  More than a hundred years later Henning Lederer, audiovisual artist, paid tribute to this genius by creating the video below based on Kahn’s work. Enjoy:

(Hat tip: Advertising and Health)

I wish it was that easy in the healthcare innovation field as well to persuade people who don’t know each other to participate in a specific project in only a few minutes’ time. You may have heard about the story. Someone started a #snOMG hashtag channel on Twitter and people in Washington wanted to do [...]

I’ve been organizing scientific events and medical conferences in the virtual realm of Second Life for years. Though it has some serious limitations.

If you don’t have IT experience, it will be quite hard to download and install it.
Costs a lot if you want to upload content.
Creating slideshows is a complicated and long process.

In the last [...]

I’ve given more than a hundred presentations so far and I had time to find the best device for creating slideshows. My choice is Prezi.com. Now I do all of my presentations in Prezi format and the audience always likes it. I thought I could forget about Powerpoint forever.
Now Nancy Duarte, author of the bible [...]

It may come in handy…

Do you remember the Dance Your PhD contest? The Science Dance Match-Up challenge is not a new one but still features really interesting videos.
This experiment began back in October 2008 with a challenge to scientists to interpret their Ph.D. theses in dance form, capture the dances on video, and upload them onto YouTube. Six weeks [...]

Sometimes a marketing idea can provide inspiration that could be used in healthcare innovations as well. Imagine hospitals where people learn about healthy lifestyle by only using such solutions:

Do you remember the music video with the title Breathe? I wrote about it a few months ago. Their name is The Laryngospasms and they have an own website where you can download other songs as well like the Fractured Femur.

Here are other “pop classics”:

Update: Many thanks to Denton Shanks for the other tips:

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I’ve recently written about the connection between automated external defibrillators and augmented reality. That application was based on Layar:

Now we can locate Twitter friends in our mobile phones:

Where is the medical potential in that? You can locate your friends who have the same medical condition and happen to be around you or you can locate doctors [...]

I’ve recently come across quite an interesting medical innovation on BoingBoing. It could help millions of people suffering from COPD, flu, cystic fibrosis or asthma.
The Lung Flute is a simple device that uses sound waves to vibrate wads of mucus in your chest cavity until they rip apart and become more easily cough-up-able. (For better [...]

Kevin, MD has recently shared a video of Better Health’s Val Jones who is a fellow blogger of mine on Better Health Network, and who gave a presentation at the e-Patient Connections 2009 Conference. She used limericks to tell the stories of two e-patients. What is a limerick? Here is an example:

The limerick packs laughs [...]

Wired Magazine always publishes some interesting videos dedicated to science and, let’s say, fun. Here are the entries and a few sample videos.
Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009

Volume rendering is a technique used to display two-dimensional data in three-dimensional space. ImageVis3D is a new volume-rendering program developed by the NIH/NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing, designed to [...]

Every time I check Or-Live.com, I’m amazed by the number of quality surgical videos uploaded there. They actually stream videos from surgeries live. State-of-the-art content.

But if you browse the Wellcome Library, you will find surgical videos from the 1930s created by the British Medical Association. A few examples:

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Magnetic resonance imaging opened a new chapter in the history of medical diagnostics, but it still cannot answer all the questions. Researchers at the Iowa State University came up with a wonderful solution. They developed a software, BodyViz, that can convert common 2D MRI and CAT scans into 3D visualizations, enabling physicians to navigate [...]

I’ve given numerous presentations to pharma companies about how to embrace social media and it’s always a hard job. So when I see some kind of a strategy behind how the pharma sector should use web 2.0 properly, I’m glad because it means there is light in the tunnel.  First here is John Pugh [...]

The best medical blog out there, Medgadget.com, has recently covered the TEDMED 2009 conference and they have been sharing video interviews with us for weeks. One of the most interesting interviews is about Shareable Ink. It might make it easier for hospitals and practices worldwide to create electronic medical records systems while still using paper [...]

My friends at Medgadget have recently attended the interesting TEDMED 2009 event. I hope I can make the next one. Here are the entries they wrote focusing on the newest innovations in medicine.

TEDMED 2009 – Day 1
TEDMED 2009 – Day 2
TEDMED 2009 – Day 3
TEDMED 2009 – Day 4 (The Final Day)

And also some [...]

I’ve recently come across Ecosphere which is a really creative idea for those who would like to see something different from an aquarium or a terrarium on their desks.
Inside each EcoSphere are active micro-organisms, bright red shrimp and algae, each existing in filtered sea water. Because the EcoSphere is a self-sustaining ecosystem, you never have [...]