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Health Highlights – March 11th, 2010

March 11, 2010 | by Walter Jessen

Health Highlights is a biweekly summary of particularly interesting articles from credible sources of health and medical information that we follow & read. For a complete list of recommeded sources, see our links page.

Why the iPad Matters for Healthcare | The Health Care Blog
The iPad has the potential to be truly useful for healthcare. Thomas Goetz offers an optimistic forecast.
Health Tweeder. A Neat Visual Tool… But is it Useful? | Laika’s MedLibLog
Jacqueline reviews Health Tweeder, a visual tool to aggregate twitter messages on specific health topics.
How Risky Are Social Networking Sites for Kids | Dr Shock MD PhD
The results of an online survey published in the journal Pediatrics found that claims of unwanted sexual solicitation or harassment associated with social networking sites don't appear justified. Dr Shock reviews the results.
What is the difference between health and healthcare? | Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC
Jay Parkinson predicts what will happen when the business model of "sickcare" – transactions between payors and providers – becomes squeezed between federal and state regulations, and the implications of such an event for brands entering the health space.
Exercise Reduces Anxiety In Sick Patients | Healthcare Hacks
A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that regular exercise can be effective at reducing anxiety. Fred Lee runs through the results.
Even Though Adults Still Need 8.5 Hours of Sleep Each Night, Most People Sleep 6.5 | The Patient Report
Cheree Cleghorn reviews the results of a recent poll on U.S. sleep habits and questions why we’re a nation of sleep-deprived people.
Is Self-Guided Research Dangerous to Your Health? | The Decision Tree
Thomas Goetz discusses self-guided or personalized research – patients using social media to decentralize and distribute health data, and using that information to make informed decisions.
Worrying: WordPress shut down a Blog of a Student Critizing the Naturopath Christopher Maloney | Laika’s MedLibLog
The complementary and alternative medicine movement has a great deal of influence over healthcare consumers. Jacqueline expresses worry over the tactics recently taken by alternative practitioners to silence critical science writers.

Finding Credible Health Information Online: MedLibs Round 1.8

November 11, 2009 | by Walter Jessen

Welcome to the eighth edition of MedLib’s Round, the monthly blog carnival that highlights some of the best writing on medical librarianship, encompassing all stages in the publication and dissemination of medical information: writing, publishing, searching, citing, managing and social networking.

There’s a revolution occurring on the Web: those “authoritative” articles written on traditional, static websites are being replaced with blogs, wikis and online social networks. In the sphere of health, medicine and information technology, this “real-time Web” consists of many who are professionals in the field; their posts are listed below.
In the digital age, these are the characteristics of new media: recent, relevant, reachable and reliable.

Here at Highlight HEALTH, we advocate health literacy for improving self-management in health. To that end, all the sites in the The Highlight HEALTH Network strive to consistently provide credible, reliable sources of health and medical information.

A 2008 study by the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest found that searching for health information online can be dangerous, with search engine results pages dominated by websites that appeared legitimate but had zero medical authority [1]. Our hope is that this edition of MedLib’s Round — themed Finding credible health information online — will offer ideas and advice to help people use the Web more effectively to search and find credible health information.

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Health 2.0 Highlights: November 1st, 2009

November 1, 2009 | by Walter Jessen

A Clinical Infusion of Google Wave | phil baumann online
Phil Baumann provides an overview on Google Wave and asks if the underlying technology offers any glimpse into improving clinical collaboration?
Google sidewiki: what can pharma do? | STweM
Andrew Spong ruminates about Google sidewiki and whether pharma will engage in debate regarding comments added to drug information websites.
A TRIP Down Database Lane: A Talk With Jon Brassey | Significant Science
The TRIP Database (Turning Research Into Practice) is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. Hope Leman interviews one of the founders of the TRIP database, Jon Brassey.
Over 400 Hospitals use Social Media | Found In Cache
Ed Bennett reports that over 400 hospitals in the U.S. are now using some form of Social Media.
Behavior Change: A Central Topic at Health 2.0 | The Decision Tree
Social contagion is of great relevance to health and was a central topic at the Health 2.0 conference last month.
Health 2.0 Conference Day 2: Consumer Aggregators | The Decision Tree
The world is becoming increasingly mobile. Several consumer aggregator applications presented at the Health 2.0 conference are focused on "on-demand" information and will enable patients to harness their medical data.

Health Highlights – October 30th, 2009

October 30, 2009 | by Walter Jessen

Journal of Participatory Medicine Launches at Connected Health | e-Patients.net
A new academic journal is being launched this week. The Journal of Participatory Medicine will move the field from anecdote to science, with articles on principles, methods and evidence-based outcomes.
Doctors have a duty to engage in social media | KevinMD.com
This is how we fight health misinformation on the Web. Are you a physician, nurse or medical professional? It’s time to start using social media.
What happens to neurology patients with symptoms “unexplained”? | BPS Research Digest
What happens when neurology patients are told that their symptoms have no identifiable physical cause? Researchers followed patients for a year and a half to see if and how their diagnoses changed.
Clean Those Surfaces! More Ways to Prevent Flu | Pulse + Signal
No matter how many times you wash your hands, if your keyboard, desk or doorknob has flu germs on it, you have a problem.
What the FDA sees that doctors and patients may never know | Schwitzer health news blog
Gary Schwitzer notes a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine that focused on how critical drug information from the FDA may fail to be included on the drug label or in relevant journal articles.
New PubMed Video (U of Manitoba) | davidrothman.net
The PubMed website has been redesigned. David Rothman posts a short video tutorial showing where you can find some useful tools in the new interface.
In The U.S., Where You Live Determines The Healthcare That You Get | Healthcare Hacks
The State Scorecard study shows that there are wide variations among states in the areas of access, quality, cost, equity and ability to live long and healthy lives.
More About Patients and the Press | Doctor David’s Blog
Participatory medicine is a model of medical care in which the active role of the patient is emphasized. Some patients not only take an active role, they push the boundaries of medicine and publish a case report describing their experience.
Side-effects from placebos can be drug specific | Mind Hacks
Have you ever wondered if patients given a placebo during a clinical trial experience side effects? It turns out they do. What’s more, a recent study examining the side effects reported by patients taking placebos in clinical trials to test migraine medications found that the placebo side effects are specific to the side effects that would be expected from the comparison drug.

Health 2.0 Highlights: June 6th, 2009

June 6, 2009 | by Walter Jessen

Want to know what I ware? | RobFraser.ca
Keeping with the meme of essential medical software and "core apps", Rob Fraser describes his physical and virtual desktop.
Create an automatic differential diagnosis list with Google Squared | Clinical Cases and Images – Blog
Dr. Ves Dimov spotlights Google Squared and provides an example of its use as a tool for medical educators to build and share their own squares.
Social media artists- the new generation patient opinion leader | whydot pharma
Influential bloggers reassuring patients, community leaders petitioning for a cause, crowdsourcing ideas for health, sharing stories to raise awareness … these are just some of the methods used by a new generation of patient opinion leaders.
Beyond Wikipedia | The Health Care Blog
Physicians, like health consumers, rely heavily on search engines. Although Wikipedia entires often appear at the top of organic results and are frequently the first reference reviewed, doctors should be concerned about accuracy.
Twitter goes Viral: Swine Flu Outbreak – Twitter a Dangerous Hype? | Laika’s MedLibLog
In the midst of the swine flu outbreak, Laika examines whether Twitter is a reliable news source or just hype and useless for finding accurate information.

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