(Hat tip: Canadian EMR)

Try other medical conditions as well.

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To me it seems that Sherpaa tries to help patients when there are easier solutions for a health-related problem compared to using the traditional healthcare system. They give a specific example, what happens when you cut your finger:

• You call your Guide
• We ask you to snap a photo of the cut and email it to us
• We look at it and it looks like something that can be handled outside the ER
• We give instructions on what to do in the meantime as we schedule a stitch up
• We call Dr. Sung (our plastic surgeon)
• You are free to meet Dr. Sung in his office in an hour
• You are on the road to recovery

—without sherpaa
Cost in ER: $4000
Time in ER: 8 hrs

—with sherpaa

Cost in Dr. Sung’s office: $1000
Time with Dr. Sung: 30 min

I believe the idea is timely and the structure is well-designed knowing Jay’s enthusiasm and proficiency. The only concern is how the healthcare system will look at their machinery. What do you think?

Five North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) crews from Liverpool, Burnley, Kendal, Crewe and Manchester will take part in the week-long project.

NWAS Director of Emergency Services Derek Cartwright said each crew would tweet for one day.

He said the tweets would not reveal patient details, but would show “the human side of the service”.

Then a friend from the UK informed me on Twitter (where else?) that London Ambulane has been doing the same thing for some time.

As I think this is a great idea and locally it can have a huge impact, I would love to see other examples from other countries and I count on you in collecting these examples.

• 81% of physicians are expected to own a smartphone by 2012
• 73% search the web (only 73%?)
• More physicians watch videos on WebMD than on Youtube?
• 86% of physicians use Facebook (certainly not for professional but personal reasons)

What do you think of these and the rest of the data?

For over five years, Dr. Jeff Benabio has been using social media channels to help patients learn about skin health and disease and to help doctors learn about engaging patients more effectively. In his practice Dr. Benabio uses disruptive tools such as telemedicine and mobile devices to improve patient access and reduce medical costs. In his talk he’ll show us how we’re re-inventing medicine with Twitter and Facebook, and why it’s the best thing to happen to medicine since vaccines.

Well, they say over 1.7 million Facebook users died in 2011. An Australian website collected all the information you need to know from digital preservation to digital waste you would leave behind.

Here is the over-shined iPad2 which everyone loves and would like to use at hospitals and clinical practices and we see an amazing number of  apps designed for that. A new study now concluded that diagnostic imaging on iPads is twice as slow.

A study from the University of Maryland found that radiologists using iPad 2s to evaluate patients for tuberculosis (TB) took twice as long to make a diagnosis as they did when using a 27-inch LCD monitor. Still, the study of 200 negative and 40 positive TB cases that included five radiologists, found the two displays to yield no significant differences when it came to diagnostic decisions.

Whatever tool, device or service we use in medicine, we must stick to the evidence based approach.

Here is my top 10 social media selection for hepatitis:

1. HBV and HCV Advocate’s Hepatitis Blog (blog)
2. Hepatitis B Foundation – Podcast Directory (podcast)
3. Inspire – Hepatitis-C Community (community site)
4. HCV Support (community site)
5. Global Hepatitis Initiative (Facebook)
6. Hepatitis Central (Twitter)
7. Hepatitis Australia (Youtube)
8. Mayo Clinic – Hepatitis (information resource)
9. AnswersIn Medicine Hepatitis C (mobile app)
10. Hepatitis Foundation (Youtube)

And PeRSSonalized Hepatitis, the simplest, free, customizable, multi-lingual medical information aggregator will let you follow these resources easily in a personalized way.

Feel free to share any of these resources and let us know if you think others should be added.

• Did the parents of this child agree to their child being used on a poster in this way?
• Did they know ISSVA would choose a photo were their child looks frightened?
• Did they know ISSVA would make the poster the shape of their child’s head?
• Did they know ISSVA would desaturate everything but their child’shemangiomas?
• Did they know ISSVA would put text all over their child’s face?
• Even if they knew and agreed to all of the above, why did ISSVA use the photo like this?

What do you think about this?

As I checked it online, there are other great comic books focusing on different conditions. Such high quality educational materials can be a huge help both for patients and their relatives.

Internet in Medicine University Course: We are in the fourth semester of the first university course that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students.

Medicine 2.0 Collection: I maintain the biggest collection of links and posts focusing on web 2.0 and medicine.

Webicina.com is my service that curates medical content in social media for free fo medical professionals and e-patients.

PeRSSonalized Medicine is the simplest, free, customizable medical information aggregator covering over 80 medical specialties and conditions in 17 languages!

Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.

List of biomedical and scientific community sites: More than 30 communities with links, descriptions and screenshots.

List of Biomedical video sites: Almost 40 sites featuring scientific or medical videos and videocasts.

When I started using twitter in 2008, I was amazed at how easy it was to connect with other folks who were beginning to think about the intersection of healthcare and social media.  I’m happy to say that I am still in touch with many of those folks – Mark Hawker, John Moore, Bob Coffield, Marty Trussell, Holly Potter and Dana Lewis, to name a few.  One of those twitter pioneers – and one of my first online friends – is a doctor who has inspired thousands with his groundbreaking work – Dr. Bertalan Mesko (more commonly known on the social web as “Berci”).  Every doctor in this program has the opportunity to choose the medium for their interview – and Berci chose a Q&A format.  So without further ado, meet one of the world’s leading thinkers on digital medicine.

Consumer robotics represented a very small part of CES but had the same combination of glitz, glamour, marvelous stuff, misrepresentation, uninspiring products and hidden gems, just like the rest of CES. Robotics Trends hosted a Robotics Tech Zone but the action was well beyond their purview because many of the companies wanted to emphasize their consumer orientation instead of highlighting the robotic.

Some examples:

• PerMMA, a personal mobility and manipulation appliance for power wheelchair users.

• Myomo, rehabilitation robotics and interactive gaming systems for stroke victim rehab.

• Mantaro telepresence robot, a mobile Skype platform using your own iPhone or iPad.

• Paro, the therapeutic furry seal-like bot for hospitals and eldercare.