Sunday, April 29, 2007

diets, health, healty life

After you read my last post, here a link for an excellent summary of diet, wieght loss, healty life and web 2.0
http://www.centernetworks.com/web-2-0-fat-off-challenge

weight loss web 2.0 tool

here
Another example of web 2.0 tool that can help your patients.
If one of your patient is looking for your professional treatment and advice , you can combine it and add to the treatment a web 2.0 platform like http://www.extrapounds.com.It's not the only one in is niche but is quite nice , friendly and worth trying.
It's a weight loss community with others applications like bodey measurements tracker and weight loss tracker also. You can make a continuity food and diet observation .
Try and write comments for us.

wiki for the medical web 2.0 community

Hi
Look for http://health20.org/wiki/Main_Page
this one is a niche wiki but important one for us, all those who interested a lot in the aspect of web 2.0 for the service and help of the healthcare and/or medical sector.
Iwish it will grow faster.
For those of you who just eager to learn more and more about this field and understand it's importance, it's a great central place for feeling the heart of web 2.0 and medicine.
Try and save it.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Open-Source Medicine

"There are thousands of promising drugs for treating diseases that are simply not getting studied or brought to market because they are derived from natural or common substances that can't be patented. The dirty little secret of the pharma business is that even a miracle cure for cancer won't be invested in if it can't be defended as a proprietary product."
A brilliant idea by Nova Spivack


Healthcare & Web 2.0 - the NIH pitch

"..We have witnessed a rapid increase in the use of Web-based 'collaborationware' in recent years. These Web 2.0 applications, particularly wikis, blogs and podcasts, have been increasingly adopted by many online health-related professional and educational services.."

A good summary by NIH

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

WEB 2.0 TOOL FOR DIABETICS

Hi


Web 2.0 in the medical field is not just for us, doctors, nurses and others (professionals in the health sector).Its also tools and applications for the consumers, our patients.
We always have to remember that high quality practice begin from close, positive and intimate relationship between the two sides of the table.
One aspect is excellent information tools for our patients.I started to talk and mention this aspect when i covered for you healia, the med search engine.another tools for the consumers that i mentioned already are the blogs by consumers for consumers. (dont forget the blog for diabetics i mentioned at one of my last posts).
Second aspect are tools /web applications that help the patient to manage his health or can create and manage better communication with the doctors.Its important for us, the professional side of the medical world to know about these tools. We can advice our patients to use them. Its our interest too.
A new example for such tool is http://www.sugarstats.com/.Its for the diabetics among us.
Everyone can open a secure private information site.It has an access from everywhere at any time. Its give the options to track glucose levels. There are options to record the medications , foods and etc.We understand the power of such records to understand and investigate the data.Its also has an educational power.
Here the abilities list that is written on the home page of sugarstats :
1.Track blood sugar glucose levels
2.Track medication intake (Injectioons, Oral, Inhalers)
3.Track food intake
4.Track physical activity
5.Share your statistics with your family, friends or health care professional 6.Access your info from any modern web browsers
7.Have a clear and simple interface to view your statistics
8.View important graphs and trends created from these statistics






So, lets go and evalute this application.
Lets start use the huge power of the web 2.0 world.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

BOOKMARKING

I know the next tool im offering you is not totally new , but bookmarking is a significant tool in the web 2.0 world that is worth writing about it. Im sure that still, a lot of you, doctors and professionals dont no a lot or even at all about this tool.
Bookmarking give you the option of making your own webdirectory by making your own tags/lables library. you can mark websites, blogs and even specific webpages. It is a huge force that the web 2.0 gives people to arrange their knowledge and their own historical remembernace.
Try first http://www.google.com/bookmarks/lookup?zx=kzZB0QArbTY&sort=label.
Im offering googles booksmarking just because i give them the seniority respect , but there are more others.
I promise to tell you abouthe others in the near future.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

MEDICAL SEARCH ENGINE

I'm not your judge ,i'm just try to open your minds and expand your horizon a bit more than googles frontiers.
Try
http://www.healia.com/healia - the medical search engine.

Its both to consumers and professionals.You have subsections for searching, so if you are a Med Pro you can get results that fit for your demands.

Worth to compare it with Google.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Videos of Surgical Procedures (2)

Yes

I want to give you as much as i can full covery of the "webcasting at the medical /health sector.
Today is http://http://www.or-live.com/
This one is another great resource for all of us , doctors, to learn and get an advanced professional view about many procedures and surgeries.
While digging more, i found , that a lot of non professionals are looking at those webcasts.
By that platform you can watch on-demand videos and also live webcasting.
The OR-Live archive features over 400 on-demand surgeries for immediate viewing.
With over 200 live events expected to be added during 2007, the Website is continuously updated with new and innovative content from leading hospitals and medical centers in the United States and Europe.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Videos of Surgical Procedures

Another website that give you the chance to enjoy the webcasting possibillities : Videos of Surgical Procedures - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/surgeryvideos.html

see,enjoy from learning and share with you collegues.

Friday, April 13, 2007

LEARN C.P.R BY VIDEO

Hi.
Here again at your service.
this time : let's learn C.P.R through the web with video demonstrations.
It's the first time we mention the use of video for the service of the health sector.
This one is less professional and can help us ,doctors, for teaching and for afilliate others to see learn and watch.Still, its a good example of the video use on the web. Promise to expose you to much more advanced webcasting tools in the near future
http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr is the place for that.

Learn CPR is a free public service supported by the university of Washington school of medicine.All of you can watch and the basics of C.P.R - cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Updated with new CPR Guidelines issued by the American Heart Association and published in Circulation, Dec 13 2005.
There are separate versions of each video tailored to adults, children and infants. The site also features printable one-page guides you can post in your home or workplace
Note: it's not replace the need for established course in C.P.R.
For all of you, video and webcasting will be another major component that will be discussed here regarding the medical field.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Another great web 2.0 tool :

watch this one http://writewith.com.

Its about sharing and editing documents and papers online.
Think how useful it is for doctors who wants to write with other partners a professional or academic paper.You can create several versions while remember the previous ones. you can leave notes and comments.

Note: We will cover any interesting platform who has the combination of:

1. it's belong to the world of web 2.0.
2.it's interesting and useful in the medical fields.
By that we establish one of our main missions -creating wise and intelligent connection between medicine and the web world.
Slowly we will create for you a web directory for doctors and others in the medical sector.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

I think is worth mention this blog
http://www.diabetesmine.com/ (indeed, medical20 world...).

Its having more and more central place in the blogsphere concerning medical aspects.
Its handling such important niche in the present- diabetes .The blogger is Amy Tenderich.
This is another example of everyone chance to influence by rolling creative and high-standart blog.
Note: try to read her post concerning Apple and medical devices . it was published yesterday and create a buzz even in the most popular and important blogs concerning web, web 2.0.

Friday, April 6, 2007

welcome

Welcome all of you

As you see we are about to start this new blog for all those of you which interested in web and medicine. Especially web 2.0 but also web 3.0,4.0.....
We will be more than happy to hear from you by sharing with everyone here your comments,opinions,news,ideas.

although,practicly, we started yesterday,this is the official starting post.

Lets share,post,feed,make tags,blog,cast