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Scienceroll: Social Media in Clinical Practice: The First Social Media Handbook for Doctors is Coming Soon!
In the last 10 months, I’ve been working day and night to finish a book that could fill a huge gap regarding the practical use of social media in medicine and healthcare. Social Media in Clinical Practice was meant to introduce medical professionals...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 8:48am -07:00T (322 words)
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Scienceroll: Mayo Clinic’s Social Media Guidelines on Video
Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media (where I’m a member of the External Advisory Board) just published their social media guidelines in a video.
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Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:33am -07:00T (27 words)
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Scienceroll: 14-Year-Old Discovers iPad Could Shut Off Implanted Defibrillators
Do you remember the story of Jack Andraka? It seems this is going to be a trend now. A 14-year-old teenager in the US discovered that the magnets inside an iPad could shut off implanted defibrillators if the device is left on the chest for some time.
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Dateline: 2013-05-11 1:18am -07:00T (91 words)
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Scienceroll: A conversation about digital literacy in medical education: My Interview on the Blog of Stanford
As I will do a Master Class at Medicine X about teaching social media in health sciences, the Scope blog of Stanford Medicine asked me to do an interview about my course in which I help medical students become better at digital literacy. An excerpt:
The m...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 1:18pm -07:00T (156 words)
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Scienceroll: Figure 1: The Flickr of Healthcare Professionals
There are more and more ways for crowdsourcing clinical questions, and the newest addition to the family of web tools and services is Figure 1, a photo sharing site for healthcare professionals. Registered physicians can share images, learn from others an...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 12:48pm -07:00T (92 words)
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Scienceroll: Focus@Will: Neuroscience Based Service Increasing Your Attention With Music
I first heard about Focus@Will at Futuremed this February and since then I’ve been following the developments. Today, they published an announcement about the Android application they just released. I worked now for hours listening to the music they...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 10:18am -07:00T (163 words)
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Scienceroll: Let Patients Help: Make This a Must-Read Book in Medical Schools
When I wanted to include digital literacy in the medical curriculum, I worked really hard to get a chance for a pilot at a medical school with over 240 years of history. Now it has been running for 5 years. I teach medical students about the use of social...
Dateline: 2013-05-06 7:33am -07:00T (142 words)
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Scienceroll: When Technological Developments Are Faster Than Our Imagination
We are all working hard on implementing digital solutions in healthcare and everyday practices, create new solutions to access medical records online and with mobile technologies. Sometimes futurists come up with quite brave ideas about making future tech...
Dateline: 2013-05-03 5:33am -07:00T (187 words)
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Scienceroll: Re-Mission 2 Helps Children Fight Cancer With Video Game
Years ago, I had a chance to receive a few copies of Re-Mission and distribute it to local pediatric clinics. I can tell you children fighting cancer loved the game. Now I was glad to read the news about the launch of Re-Mission 2. The company behind it, ...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 12:33pm -07:00T (130 words)
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Scienceroll: The FDA Launches The Patient Network to Educate Patients
It was time for the FDA to step up and represent the very loud voice of e-patients as well. The FDA Patient Network was just launched to educate patients and advocates about FDA; recruit patients and advocates to serve in meetings and to speak at FDA ev...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 1:18am -07:00T (134 words)
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Scienceroll: Healthcare Infographics Help Start a Conversation
The Facebook page of TEDMED Live Bologna published some amazing infographics and sketches about different aspects of telemedicine, health 2.0 and digital technologies. Such visuals can help start a conversation or brainstorming session about potential dev...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 1:18pm -07:00T (44 words)
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Scienceroll: The World Wide Web is 20 years old
CERN, the European science laboratory, made the first ever webpage public on April 30, 1993. The page is still available.
Why is it important? The web is 20 years old now, it’s time to focus on the meaningful use in healthcare and medicine. E-patien...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 1:18pm -07:00T (55 words)
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Scienceroll: Pharma Communications in a Digital Era – A White Paper
Mark Senak at Eye on FDA published a detailed white paper about the regulatory issues of pharma communications in social media. This white paper with the practical open access guide we published a year ago should assist pharma companies in finding the rig...
Dateline: 2013-04-26 8:18am -07:00T (51 words)
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Scienceroll: My Master Class at Medicine X of Stanford: Teaching Social Media in the Health Sciences
It’s an honor to be invited to do a master class at the upcoming Medicine X conference taking place at Stanford University.  I will conduct a 90-minute Master Class on teaching social media in the health sciences. The final curriculum will be shap...
Dateline: 2013-04-25 2:03am -07:00T (113 words)
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Scienceroll: An E-Patient’s Essay in the Realm of Medical Professionals: BMJ Paper
E-Patient Dave deBronkart, the leader of the health 2.0 movement, published an essay under the title, How the e-patient community helped save my life. This is a must read for every medical professional just like his recently published book.
In April 2009...
Dateline: 2013-04-24 6:48am -07:00T (88 words)
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