Better Health: Smart Health Commentary

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• Medical Twitter (BMJ Careers)

• Twitter in 1935 (BoingBoing)

• 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Twitter Research

• Doctors, Patients, and Twitter (Sean Khozin, MD)

• Twitter and Science presentation from the 140 Characters Conference (A Blog Around the Clock)

• How Hospitals and Health Systems Should Not Use Twitter (A “HealthTweep” Pulse Check)

If you are a hospital, healthcare facility or parent system considering social media, please take the time to learn what is happening in the “Twittersphere”, and do pay attention to the evolving “agreements” of Twitter-etiquette.

Here is my newest favourite medical  blog, NCBI ROFL where you will find the funniest peer-reviewed articles published day-by-day. Just e-mail them the PubMed link and your discovery could appear there. A few examples:

• Feet rolled over by cars: radiological and histological considerations from experiments.

• Flaturia: passage of flatus at coitus. Incidence and pathogenesis.

FastCompany published a list of the top 10 most creative people in healthcare.

1. Melinda Gates, cochair and trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2. Anthony Atala, director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
3. Jay Parkinson, founder, Hello Health
4. James Heywood, cofounder and chairman, PatientsLikeMe
5. Thomas Frieden, director, Center for Disease Control & Prevention
6. Peter Neupert, vice president of Health Solutions Group, Microsoft
7. Steve Case, founder and CEO, Revolution Health Group
8. Hans Rosling, professor of global health, Karolinska Institute in Sweden
9. Douglas Melton, codirector, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
10. Anne Wojcicki, cofounder, 23andMe

But where are these guys?

• Miguel Cabrer of Medting.com
• Dr. Val from Better Health
• Jen Mccabe Gorman from NextHealth
• Founders of Navigenics.com
• Lucien Engelen fro AcuteZorg.nl
• Founders of American Well.
• Founders of Second Life projects such as Healthinfo Island, Imperial College of London or Ann Myers Medical Center.
• Founders of Sermo.
• Founders of Health on the Net Foundation.
• Members of the Medschoolevolution community.

Please tell us your tips!

Federico Semeraro shared iCPR Lite, a great iPhone application, with me. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a crucial procedure and everyone, I mean everyone, should be trained to be able to perform CPR any time when needed. This iPhone application helps you how to do it.

More about it on D-Sign…

Who has never heard about Jay Parkinson, founder of HelloHealth service, the first online medical practice? Now please meet Dr. Hodge, the first iPhone doctor.

Hodge’s start-up Personal Pediatrics aims to equip a fleet of self-starter pediatricians in major metro areas with iPhones, cloud-based practice software and the marketing know-how to court new parents, families and corporate health programs alike. The company’s plan points to a growing trend of doctors returning to what was once a mainstay of the profession: the house call.

Hodge has already established that the iPhone doctor model works — after more than a decade working in a pediatrics office in St. Louis, Missouri, where she saw up to 35 patients a day for about 10 minutes each, Hodge traded in the patient assembly line to launch Personal Pediatrics. That was three years ago. Back then she had her laptop and Palm Treo in tow.

I have to mention one thing first. The whole health 2.0 movement is not about transforming the healthcare system into an online service, but there are more and more people who want to reach healthcare services through online or mobile applications.

If there are no patients who want to be online, no doctors will build such services. That’s how it works.