Health 2.0 Highlights: February 9th, 2009

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• Improving Your Medical Literacy | The Decision Tree

  Decreased mortality is one of a number of benefits of health literacy. While health 2.0 empowers the next-generation of healthcare consumers, we shouldn't forget about the other half of the problem.

• PeRSSonalized Medicine | Webicina.Com

  A free tool that lets you create your own "medical journal" and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place.

• Hospital Social Network List | Found In Cache

  Ed Bennet catalogs 150 U.S. Hospitals that use YouTube, Facebook or Twitter (includes links to each resource).

• 140 Health Care Uses for Twitter | phil baumann online

  What is healthcare doing with micro-sharing platforms such as Twitter? Phil Baumann has 140 suggestions.

• Twitter Doctors, Medical Students and Medicine related | Medical Student Blog

  The Medical Student Blog provides a comprehensive list of doctors, medical students and medicine-related tweets and blogs/websits.