Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival #34

It is a pleasure to once again host the Medicine 2.0 blog carnival.  Again, many thanks to all the contributors and in particular to Berci Mesko at scienceroll.com for several excellent references. If you are not familiar with blog carnivals - here is a description from Wikipedia.   

• Ivor Kovic's blog has an interesting post about a pulse monitor on the iPhone
• Joshua Schwimmer presents part 2 of 100+ tips for doctors on call
• Open Thinking and Digital Pedagogy has put together a list of 100+ eLearning Professionals on Twitter
• Personomics asks the question "My DNA on my iPod?"
• Bob Coffield over at Health Care Law Blog presents a resource of leading lawyers in adopting social media tools into their practice of law
• Health Info Island discusses an educational group event in Second Life
• Curious about the crediblity of health information and digital media?  Check out this eHealth post on the matter by John Sharp
• Notes on free medicine guides for the iPhone are discussed on ehealthonline.org
• Bruce Friedman at labsoftnews.com has some interesting ideas about how developing countries may lead the way in healthcare IT solutions
• Anne Zieger blogged about issues related to Health 2.0 for health IT leaders
• Dean Giustini gives 5 reasons why wiki'ing is hard work
• The Medical Education Blog reviews several of the top social networking sites for patients
• Alan Brookstone presents an algorithm and ramkings for top ranked EMRs on the Canadian EMR blog
• David Rothman tells us where to find embeddable health information videos from davidrothman.net
• Chris Paton reviews the Medicine 2.0 conference last month in Toronto over at the Health Informatics Blog with several great comments and links
• Pharma 2.0 presents "an apple [iphone] a day..."
• The WSJ Health Blog has an interesting post I came across about why companies are paying for their employees to travel to referral centers
• prep4md.com posts about a new project for sharing medical images on flickr
• Clinical Cases and Images Blog writes about how (not) to twitter if you work in healthcare
• Berci Mesko has an interesting post about an online survey of medical bloggers
• Westby Fisher, MD, FACC at drwes.blogspot.com has some opinions about the use of alphabet soup in medicine today
• Kevin, M.D. has an opinion piece in the USA Today blog giving a quick synopsis of why only 13% of doctors have adopted electronic medical records for their practices
• Sam Solomon presents Canadian MDs get their own social network
• Alvaro Fernandez presents Allstate: Can we improve Driver Safety using Posit Science InSight? posted at SharpBrains
• Mark your calenders now - the dates for next year for Blog World Expo are October 15-17, 2009 in Las Vegas where there will be an entire medical blogger track

Comments

[Grace Young]

A very interesting group of posts. I'm sorry you weren't able to use my submission, "Safety First" which is about fall prevention. Over 200,000 people a year suffer falls which cause severe injury and/or death. Please check my blog graceryoung.com for the post.

[Grace Young]

A very interesting group of posts. I'm sorry you weren't able to use my submission, "Safety First" which is about fall prevention. Over 200,000 people a year suffer falls which cause severe injury and/or death. Please check my blog graceryoung.com for the post.