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Getting Real: Can Health 2.0 Stay Relevant?

Relevant (rĕl’ə-vənt) 1. Having to do with the matter at hand; to the point I read with amusement Susanna Fox’s redux review about the relevance of Health 2.0 in general and in changing...

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Health Care Social Media – The Lawyers Don’t Always Say No

Here is a slideshow from David Harlow about the legal issues behind using social media as e.g. a healthcare institution. I attended the 14th Annual Healthcare and the Internet Conference in Las Vegas...

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Doctors 2.0 and You: Conference in 2011

I think one of the most exciting conferences in 2011 will take place in Paris between 25 and 26 of June: Doctors 2.0 and You. I’ll give a presentation so see you there! How are Doctors using Social...

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NHS Health 2.0 Tools With Webicina

NHSWebTools.com is a repository of selected health 2.0-related social media services. For my great pleasure, it also includes Webicina.com, a free service the curates medical content even in social...

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What is TeleBaby?

There are more and more premature children and their situation for their parents is dramatic. They would love to be with the newborn 24 hours a day, but in most cases they obviously cannot. At the...

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Facebook Saves Woman's Life: Newt Gingrich and Reality-Based Healthcare...

I've seen at least half a dozen links to the op-ed coauthored by Newt Gingrich and neurosurgeon Kamal Thapar about how the doctor used information on Facebook to save a woman's life. (It was published...

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Newt Gingrich’s Take On Facebook Saving A Woman’s Life

I’ve seen at least half a dozen links to the op-ed coauthored by Newt Gingrich and neurosurgeon Kamal Thapar about how the doctor used information on Facebook to save a woman’s life. (It was published...

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Healthmash iPhone app

HealthMash, WebLib’s next generation semantic health search engine, that utilizes proprietary natural language processing and semantic technology tools and resources in order to find highly relevant,...

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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...

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Launching Mayo Clinic Social Network #doctors20 #health20fr #hcsmeu

By alphabetical order, the following institutions are charter members of the Mayo Clinic Social Media Health Network:     * Inova Health System, Reston, Virginia, USA    * Mission Health Care,...

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Health 2.0: Is It A Threat To The Medical Profession?

The Internet has threatened journalism. Clay Shirky has said that everyone is a media outlet. An Internet connection and blogging platform makes everyone a publisher. Can the mass...

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Social Media and the Medical Profession from Australia

The American Medical Association (AMA) has recently published guidelines for doctors using social media regarding which I described that this set of guidelines is without details and clear...

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Heart Diseases: Social Media in a Curated Way

There are hundreds of quality blogs, news sites, medical journals, Twitter users or Youtube channels focusing on the different types of heart diseases, but Webicina selects the most relevant resources...

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A new (?) look for WHO

Andre Blackman reported that the World Health Organization has a new website design. While it looks better than the last one, there are very important issues that are missing. Is there an RSS logo...

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Newistic: Mining Social Media

I’ve recently come across Newistic as I was about to meet the co-founder, Horatiu Mocian, but we couldn’t make it. The service sounds intereting and timely to me. Newistic offers a customizable web...

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Internet in Medicine University Course: Semester is over

I believe that this is still the first and only university accredited course in the world that focuses on social media and medicine for medical, dentistry, pharmacy and public health students. This...

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David Harlow quoted in AMA American Medical News story on geolocation services

As health care providers continue to wonder whether and how they should add social media to their mix of communications tactics, new tools -- and new uses for those tools -- continue to sprout up.Â...

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Health 2.0 News launches

By Matthew Holt Today I'm very excited to tell you that Health 2.0 News is launching. We’ve had the Health 2.0 Blog for several years now and of course have extensively covered the world of Health...

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Cancer 2.0 from Pew Internet Research

Pew Internet Research published again a very interesting study focusing on cancer patients using the internet. Findings related to the use of the internet for health information comes from telephone...

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Health 2.0 News: From Mobile Search to Virtual Fluoroscopy

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...

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