MedWizard: Medicine 2.0

Visual Medical Dictionary

I’ve recently come across an interesting medical search engine, the Visual Medical Dictionary. Why is it unique? Let’s see an example. I typed diabetes, then I had to choose from this list:

I thought I should take a look at Type 2, then I got a description of the disease and this image/graph:

So this CureHunter search engine goes beyond regular dictionaries by displaying an ontology context tree (MeSH based) and interactive network graph of related drugs, diseases and therapies. For example: a search for “obesity” will show a strong relationship with “Insulin” and “Exercise” among other drugs and therapies.

CureHunter can read the entire US National Library of Medicine Medline Archive. What do they provide?

• For patients: PDF Reports with all drug evidence for all known cures or symptom improvement.
• For medical professionals: decision support in 10-20 seconds of real clinical time.
• For pharma research scientists: over 1.5 million specific clinical outcome data points to new drug discovery software.

Ion Channel Media Group: a place for scientists

I’d like to present a scientific aggregator that provides dozens of portals focusing on the many subbranches of science:

Ion Channel Media Group controls many biotechnology web properties. The material offered by these sites attracts a high caliber of visitor. The scientist rankings recent literature, job offers, and laboratory directory is of little interest to the general public, so you can be sure that serious scientists and business people will be your main audience.

Just take an example, what can you find in the bioinformatics portal:

• Recent High Impact Publications
• Top Ranked Bioinformatics Scientists
• Advance Publications Compiled By SciFeeds
• Recent Bioinformatics News
• Recent Bioinformatics Jobs
• Top-Rated Bioinformatics Links

Here are the genetics-related portals:

• Epigenetics
• Gene therapy
• Transgenic research

The biggest list ever of web 2.0 tools

This list is awesome! Here are my favourite, newly discovered tools:

• Blog goggle - Categorize and rate pro bloggers.

• Connotea - Free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists

 

• Hubpages - Share your genius.

You can easily publish information on a topic you love to write about. Try the health category!

• Librarything - Catalogue & share your library.

It’s an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.

• Visualthesaurus - Find & visualize synonyms.

An interactive dictionary and thesaurus  with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning.

• Medical Portal: MedChecker

MEDchecker.com will be a PDR (Physicians Desk Reference) geared mostly towards a full coverage of information about the effects and usages of North American drugs (prescription medicines).

• Web2.0validator - Screen your website on 2.0-ishness.

I scored only 16 of the 66…

• Brainreactions - Participate in brainstorms & share ideas.

An online brainstorming site that prompts a vast, global userbase to generate innovative ideas aimed at a particular topic.

• Findory - Personalize your news.

• Projectspaces

Simple, secure and powerful web-based workspace to help your project teams, workgroups, committees, partners, and others quickly and easily connect, share and collaborate.

Center for Internet and Digital Medicine

A new blog on the sky of medicine 2.0. Their mission is incredible:

The Center will identify and promote effective internet and related technologies models of excellence, and seek to understand the implications as they relate to healthcare, e-health and digital medicine. The Center will further promote effective internet and e-health technologies models of excellence for leadership, quality, safety and effectiveness.

Don't forget to take a look at the blog.

Medicine 2.0 blogs

Here is a list of blogs focused on web 2.0 and medicine. If you follow them, you're going to be up-to-date on this special field of medicine.

• Clinical Cases and Images
• davidrothman.net
• Health Care Law Blog
• Medical 2.0
• Scienceroll
• Web 2.0 and Medicine
• Web 3.0 Blog

If you happen to know more, drop us a line!

Web 3.0 Blog

Medicine 2.0: the slideshow

I'm going to present my slideshow for a bigger audience on Tuesday at the Department of Urology in Debrecen, so if you happen to travel to Hungary these days, don't miss it! :)

Until then, here it is in English:

Feed pipes of medical blogs

The DNA Network is a FeedBurner network made by Hsien-Hsien Lei of Eye on DNA and Rick Vidal of My Biotech Life. They were very kind and asked me to join this great project. The official description says:

A network (double helix?) composed of life science enthusiasts with specialized views in areas such as genetics, biology, biotechnology, health care, and much more.

 So this is an aggregation of the latest posts and articles of the best genetic and genomic blogs. It currently consists of the following members:

• My Biotech Life
• DNA Direct Talk
• Epidemix
• Epigenetics News
• evolgen
• Eye on DNA
• Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You
• Genomicron
• henry, the human evolution news relay
• Omics! Omics!
• ScienceRoll
• The Genetic Genealogist

I was thinking about Ves Dimov's suggestion to create multiple feed pipes for all the medical specialties. So we could have a feed aggregator for general medicine, clinical genetics or radiology, etc. It'd be different from blog carnivals as we could read all the posts of the best blogs in one place. But, I'm afraid, we don't have enough blogs to start such a great project. Until then, enjoy DNA Network, and subscribe to the feed here.

Welcome to the MedWizard Blog!

My name is Bertalan Meskó (alias NCurse) and I'm going to contribute to this blog. I do my medical studies in Hungary, but I have an English medical blog (Scienceroll) where I usually collect and analyze the news of medicine 2.0. Medicine 2.0 is a term for describing the relationship between web 2.0 and medicine. In the next couple of posts, I'm going to talk more about the advantages and features of medicine 2.0.

Now, I'd like to introduce myself as I don't want to write about me any more. I plan to become a clinical geneticist, though nowadays the my main field of interest is medicine 2.0. I'm also an administrator in Wikipedia, where I coordinate and maintain several medical projects.

Because of these works, I've been mentioned in Nature Medicine, Medscape; my blog has been mentioned in Cell journal and in several medical blogs. To demonstrate my dedication to the field, I've created two slideshows: Genetics and Web 2.0 and  Medicine 2.0, the beginning of a new era. 

I wanted to contribute to this blog as I'm amazed by the usability of BioWizard so I'm going to talk more about Biowizard's features. I'd like to show that how Biowizard can save time for a physician or scientist and make it easier to follow the changes of your field of interest.

So I hope you're going to enjoy this blog and, of course, suggestions are welcome (berci.mesko [at] gmail.com).