Mayo Clinic is highly dedicated to the use of social media in health care.
This is a video from Tweetcamp II, a course that occurred in April 2009 focused on providing teaching and training for the staff on using Twitter on health care.
More information here
If this is for week 32, I wonder how it will be on week 42…
Delta Exchange is a social networking for primary care physicians created by TransforMED, an American Academy of Family Physicians subsidiary. Its main goal is to enhance the family physicians knowledge in the patient centered medical home model.
Transform to a medical home — with a little help from your friends
We learned from the National Demonstration Project (NDP) that transforming to a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) isn’t easy — it actually IS rocket science — and it requires meaningful change throughout all aspects of a practice.
We also learned that medical practices can be lonely places: physicians and staff often feel isolated. What they want and need are opportunities to communicate, collaborate, and learn with other practices in order to maintain the momentum of change.
And lastly, we also learned that some practice leaders have a DIY attitude (Do-It-Yourself). They were not interested in having a consultant or practice coach in the practice; they just wanted useful information, some accountability, and connections with other practices to learn best practices.
TransforMED’s Delta-Exchange provides all of that in an online, social networking platform.
With the cost of 30$/month per user, this is an interesting solution for knowledge sharing and collaborative virtual work among family physicians.
James Bateman on how virtual patients ‘bring more reality’ to simulation-based scenarios http://tinyurl.com/l7wf9p
This is an interesting video, makes me think about the possibility of using Virtual Reality for Medical Education in General Practice.
Each corner at the Provence has its romantic gloom.
Today I’m traveling to Avignon for some holidays. It’s always great to visit the Provence and enjoy the south of France, with all the exquisite gastronomy and beautiful landscapes.
The 63rd edition of the Festival d’Avignon is still occurring, I’ll have a chance to visit it for the first time.
À tout à l’heure!
I’ve been recently giving some thoughts on how to change the look of my blog. I have to admit that I’m more a microblogger (and twitterholic) than a regular blogger.
If you went to medical school, you certainly remember the hours of study that are needed to fully understand cardiac arrhythmias (if ever possible).
This is a great video that may help you. It can take a while to catch all the moves, but I’m sure you will read an EKG in a different way.
Thank you @amspina for the link.
Engaging kids in healthcare can be one of the many hard tasks of a health professional, but surely one of the most rewarding.
Nowadays, creating technologic platforms for health education is more than an alternative; it’s mandatory.
This is certainly going in that direction: Medikidz - medical information for kids!
The 5 Medikidz – Axon, Gastro, Skinderella, Pump and Chi – are a “group of larger-than-life. space-dwelling characters” that live on a 3D virtual world, a planet called Mediland and shaped as the human body. By using graphic novels, medicine information pamphlets, an online information edutainment environment, online games, and of course, social networking, the Medikidz are determined to explain medical concepts in a simple and understandable way, empowering children and their parents. Everything starting in next July.
This is the 3D view of the Stomach Room with some food in it.
Will it be possible for grown-up docs to pay a visit? I would love to take a journey trough Mediland and remind those days of “Il était une fois la vie”.
More information:
Facebook – Medikidz Foundation
E-Health Europe: World’s first kid’s medical website announced
Habbo – Medikidz group
This is interesting. I have thought of using endoscopy videos as a means of teaching kids about the gut.
Thanks for your comment,
I think we should use all the possible means to help kids understand the human body; endoscopy videos could be interesting in deed.
Best regards,
Alex.
Glad you like the look of our forthcoming website and virtual world! In answer to your question – yes of course grown-ups can visit too 
If you have never heard this name before, don’t worry: better late than never.
Jay Parkinson, @jayparkinson, author of the jay parkinson + md + mph blog and a health 2.0 revolutionizer, presented hellohealth in June 2008, a social network between patients and doctors that steps aside from the US healthcare insurance companies and their dense billing system. Although a little focused on an economist point of view, this video from Jay presents the way that primary care should be on the 21st century: personalized and citizen centered healthcare based on a high usage of the communication technologies.
Is this is the doctor-patient relationship 2.0 ? Probably yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, Jay Parkinson.
More information:
Scienceroll: Jay Parkinson and Hello Health
I have to say that this is wonderfull idea for teaching students, and very hard body work out, too.
I shared this video.
Thanks Alex!