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Over 1300 connections made at Medicine 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:43:00 +0000

I just had a look at our Medicine 2.0 social network (http://www.medicine20.net) database to see how many connections have been made in the past week: Over 1300 connections were added (a connection is defined as a Medicine 2.0 user connecting to another user by saying they have met, they want to meet, they are a fan or friend/colleague)!
450 of these connections were made at the Medicine 2.0 Congress in Stanford through scanning badges - i.e. our innovative use of QR codes on badges which automatically added the person you met at a Medicine 2.0 conference to your Medicine 2.0 profile and social network. In other words, people "scanned" each other at the Medicine 2.0 congress at least 450 times (probably more, because some users put their twitter accounts or company homepages on the QR code, in which case the encounter is not registered).
At the next Medicine 2.0'12 in Boston (Sept 15-16th 2012) we are going to make this a lot more user-friendly process, and we are working on incorporating Twitter and Facebook connections.
This should also produce some interesting data suitable for a social network analysis. Who met whom and what kind of collaborations emerge from these encounters? Anybody looking for a PhD thesis topic?

In case you missed it: Medicine 2.0'12 Trailer from Closing Session 2011 on YouTube

noreply@blogger.com (Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:55:00 +0000

See the video on YouTube here

Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine and Biomedical Research

Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)

Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School

September 15, 2012 – September 16, 2012

Thank you, Stanford, for hosting Medicine 2.0'11, which was SOLD OUT and a great success. See you all next year in Boston!

(Attended Medicine 2.0 @ Stanford? Please fill in this electronic evaluation form)

Save the Date

Medicine 2.0’12 | Boston, USA

5^th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web 2.0 in Medicine, Health & Biomedical Research

15-16 September, 2012

Abstract/Speaker Proposal Submission Deadline: March 7^th, 2012

The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School

New additional themes and tutorials: Mobile Apps; Social Media Analytics; Social Media & Apps for Public Health, and much more!
Gadget Exhibition & Demos of apps & sites for epatients and health professionals
Internationally renowned keynote speakers & panelists
Practice, business, and research presentations
Live- and on-demand streaming on the web (registration required)

Please login at http://www.medicine20congress.com and check your notification preferences for Medicine 2.0’12 to receive notifications for this conference. If you do not have an account with the Medicine 2.0 network, please pre-register here to be on our mailing list.

For sponsorship opportunities and proposals please contact the conference producer.

- All information subject to change -

How we will engage epatients at Medicine 2.0'12 in Boston

noreply@blogger.com (Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:12:00 +0000

Medicine 2.0'11 at Stanford is over and we are already busy preparing the next Medicine 2.0'12 in Boston (Sept 15-16th 2012).
Since 2008, we have always "embedded" epatients in Medicine 2.0, and as in past Medicine 2.0 conferences, we will actively engage epatients in the 2012 conference. This starts with having epatients (such as epatient Dave) on the advisory board, and ends with offering free participation for epatients.
For the latter we will be experimenting with a new model (credit goes to Kevin Leonardt from the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto for the original idea): One registration pays for two people - one registration fee (which will be significantly lower than Stanford) can cover a pair of health professional and an epatient. Any registrant paying for Medicine 2.0'12 will be able to nominate an epatient who can attend the conference for free (in person or through webcasting). So if you are an epatient out there, bug your health professional to attend Medicine 2.0'12 In Boston, Sept 15-16th, and ask him to nominate you on the registration form.

QR Codes on the #med2 badges

noreply@blogger.com (Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:08:00 +0000

Larry had the brilliant idea to put QR codes on Medicine 2.0 badges, which contains a URL. Use an iphone/android app like Redlaser to scan he badge of the person you are talking to.

We combined this powerful tool with the Medicine 2.0 Social Network, which means that - if you use the default URL linking to your med2 profile page - not only can you see the profile of the person you are chatting with when you scan the QR code, but that person is also automatically added to your personal profile page as a "user you have met"...

Apart from having a nice logbook of who you met at #med2, you can use this to expose your contact information (email address) selectively to people you met or you added as colleagues or friends. Business cards are so out...

Let's see who wins the award for making most connections at Medicine 2.0!

(Note: When you make a connection for the first time, after scanning the QR code you will have to login so the relationship can be stored. Before the conference starts, make sure you have your username/pw handy - use the "forgot password" option if not. Also, before the congress starts, edit your profile to review/change your privacy preferences - we recommend to show at least your name, affiliation and country publicly to all visitors so you appear on the attendee list, but make your contact information only available to people you connect with. BY DEFAULT, YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS NOT VISIBLE TO YOUR CONNECTIONS, SO MAKE SURE YOU ENABLE THIS SO PEOPLE WHOM YOU BEFRIEND CAN GET IN TOUCH).

Where should Medicine 2.0'12 be hosted?

noreply@blogger.com (Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:09:00 +0000

Update Sep 2011: A decision for 2012 has been made - Medicine 2.0'12 will take place in Boston at the spectacular new conference center at Harvard Medical School. We are currently accepting bids and proposals for potential hosts of 2013 - please contact the conference series producer Dr Eysenbach for the RFP

Please help us to decide where the next Medicine 2.0 (2012) should be hosted (use the poll at the top of this page).

Should we stay in the Silicon Valley?

Should we move to the East coast, perhaps to Boston?

Should we return to our roots in Toronto?

Are you in the mood for (and do you have the budget for) a more exotic location like Hawaii?

Is it Europe's turn again?

Or should we venture into the Asian region?

If you have another idea that is not on the list, or if you are interested in putting in a bid yourself as hosting Medicine 2.0'12, please contact geysenba at gmail dot com, or post a comment.

Thanks for your input!

The Medicine 2.0 Social Network

noreply@blogger.com (Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:15:00 +0000

Explore the Medicine 2.0 Social Network http://www.medicine20.net

As the founder and producer of the Medicine 2.0 series it was always my intention to use and support social media as much as possible when putting together Medicine 2.0 conferences.

There is twitter of course (the Medicine 2.0 community uses the #med2 hashtags), and Facebook, but the "drawback" of these communities is that they are open for anybody to join - which is great in principle, but a disadvantage if you plan/consider to attend a Medicine 2.0 event and just want to find out who else is there, and want to connect with other participants and speakers before or after the event.

Over the past 4 years and in the previous conferences, we have used the crowdvine social networking platform to facilitate networking between participants before, during, and after Medicine 2.0 events, and from the evaluation forms we know that this has been very well received. Crowdvine essentially allows conference participants to create a profile page with their bio, and allows other participants to connect to them by saying they are a friend/colleague, they want to meet, they have met, or they are a fan.

However, we are now phasing out crowdvine, because of several disadvantages which came with having to deal with a third-party service:

participants had to go to another site and create another account, and re-enter their profile information,
over the years, participants from different Medicine 2.0 conferences joined the site and it became impossible to tell who will be and who was at which Medicine 2.0 event, making networking before a specific conference more difficult, and
we had a massive problem with spammers joining the crowdvine Medicine 2.0 group. We suggested to the crowdvine developer to implement a password or secret code so that we can only allow Medicine 2.0 participants to join the group, but this was never implemented. It is simply too great of an administrative burden to go through the list of crowdvine applicants and identify those who look legitimate (i.e. Medicine 2.0 registrants).

As a consequence, we have now closed registration of new members at the Crowdvine group, and refer users back to the Medicine 2.0 Congress site, where we now emulate the functionality we had on crowdvine.

On the Medicine 2.0 mini-social network you can:

see the list of speakers and attendees (e.g. here for the 2011 Stanford event) - this can be used as a starting point to connect with other speakers
conference participants have profile pages with their bio (see figure for an example of my profile page),
and participants can connect to any other participant by clicking on links on the profile pages saying they are a friend/colleague, they want to meet, they have met, or they are a fan (to do so they must login). The current requirement is that people must have a user account on the site and login, rather than having to have attended a Medicine 2.0 conference, but we have to experiment whether this again creates problems with spamming.

Speaker/participant profile page on http://www.medicine20congress.com

Any conference is inherently a networking event, and directly integrating this into the Medicine 2.0 site reduces the burden on participants to recreate a profile on a separate site such as Crowdvine, as we have already their details, bio etc. in our database. Also, we can better enforce that only participants register if needed, and we can link to the abstracts speakers are presenting. Even more exciting, we already have some pre-existing "relationships" in our database, so we can crosslink between participants with similar interests.

Of course there is this other tension between openness and privacy. With Medicine 2.0 being an open knowledge dissemination event (and with most participants being also speakers whose information is listed in abstracts anyways) we do not expect many people wanting to "hide" their information, but of course we give them the option to do so. All users and participants have complete freedom (via Edit My Profile) over what information should appear on their public profile page. They can also set their notification preferences (i.e. if they want to get an email notifying them that someone want to meet with them), much as they do on Facebook or other social networks. We have sent out two previous emails asking users to set/verify their privacy settings. As all "public" settings were originally "opt-out", we have decided to err on the side of caution, and we have made the display of certain information such as email address, street name, and phone number opt-in (we overwrote all previous privacy settings, so participants who indicated before Aug 29th, 2011 that they would allow display of this information to other registered users have to login and edit their profile explicitly to enable display of this information again). As an aside, it should be stressed that contact information is always only displayed to logged-in users only, so "public" means public to other logged in users, not the world. We are working on more sophisticated privacy settings, but again we have to strike a balance between being ethical on one hand but not making it too complex for users on the other (discussions we know well from Facebook and other social media).

We are very interested in how this experiment will be received and are open to any suggestions on how to improve the user experience of participants of Medicine 2.0 events further. As founder and producer of the Medicine 2.0 project, my long-term goal has always been to create more than just a series of conferences, but to create a virtual community of academics, practitioners, and businesses working in the field of social media in health and medicine, with ongoing conversations and collaboration between events. Social networking is obviously an important tool to achieve this, and we are looking forward to explore innovative ways to transform the traditional scientific conference format by integrating social media as much as possible. Be a part of it!

Gunther Eysenbach

University of Toronto

Founder & Producer, Medicine 2.0 Conference Series

14 More ePatient Scholarship Winners Announced!

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:36:00 +0000

The Stanford Organizing committee is proud to announce 14 more winners of scholarships to attend the Stanford Summit and Medicine 2.0 @ Stanford. This brings the total number of scholarships awarded by Stanford to an unprecedented 23 ePatient scholarships (5 full scholarships, 2 travel awards, and 18 partial scholarships)!

The Stanford Organizing committee committed funding to the epatient scholarship program because it believes that patients are a vital component to dialogue about the future of medicine and emerging technology. Unfortunately the cost of health care conferences often precludes epatient participation. We want to change that. We believe our epatient scholarship program is helping us achieve this goal.

Please help us congratulate the following winners:

Richard Anderson (Partial Scholarship)
Marcel Bensch (Partial Scholarship)
Liza Berstein (Partial Scholarship)
James Borton (Partial Scholarship)
Deb Boyce (Partial Scholarship)
Sharon Chayra (Partial Scholarship)
Lisa F. (Full Scholarship)
Eve Harris (Partial Scholarship)
Mary Ellen Mannix (Partial Scholarship)
Caroline Naumann (Partial Scholarship)
Sherry Reynolds (Partial Scholarship)
Jody Schoger (Full Scholarship + $200 travel funds)
Erin Shelby (Partial Scholarship)
Steve Wilkins (Partial Scholarship)

Sincerely,

Larry Chu, MD

Organizing Chairman, Medicine 2.0 @ Stanford

Announcing Medgadget as a Medicine 2.0 @ Stanford media partner

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:43:00 +0000

With the Medicine 2.0 Stanford conference just a few weeks away, I'm happy to share that the bloggers from Medgadget will be at the conference as a media partner. Medgadget, which calls itself as "the Internet journal of emerging medical technologies," has been covering the space for years and I'm excited to see their reportage at Medicine 2.0.
-Larry Chu, MD

Physician Adoption of Social Media for Life-long Learning

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:44:00 +0000

Brian S. McGowan, PhD, and his co-authors, Bryan Vartabedian, Robert Miller and Molly Wasko, will present their recent survey work on the "Meaningful Use" of social media by physicians at Medicine 2.0 @ Stanford next month.

In a recent interview (via Skype) with Dr. Paul Martin from the AIM lab at Stanford, Brian explained his research project and the goals he hopes to achieve by presenting his work at Medicine 2.0 @ Stanford.

Dr. McGowan's group will be sharing their data with the Medicine 2.0 audience before their panel discussion. The intent is to allow the audience to interact with and examine their data so that they can fully engage in the conversation and perhaps offer additional insights during Dr. McGowan's panel discussion at Medicine 2.o.

You can access their data by clicking here.

Don't miss Dr. Brian McGowan, Bryan Vartabedian and Molly Wasko's panel discussion at Medicine 2.0 @ Stanford, Sept 16-18, 2011.

ePatient Scholarship Winners - Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:54:00 +0000

In an effort to make Medicine 2.0 Stanford as accessible as possible to all ePatients, we are delighted to offer partial and full scholarships for ePatients to attend Medicine 2.0 Stanford. Some of these awards include limited funds to defray the cost of travel.

We'd like to congratulate the following ePatients scholarship winners:

Sean Ahrens (Full Scholarship, 3-Days)
Hugo Campos (Partial Scholarship, 3-Days)
Melinda Cuthbert (Full Scholarship, 3-Days)
Robin Farmanfarmaian (Partial Scholarship, 3-Days)
Nikolai Kirienko (Partial Scholarship, 3-Days)
David Mendosa (Partial Scholarship, 3-Days)
Marcela Christina Musgrove-Chavez (Partial Scholarship, 3-Days)
Sarah Kucharski (Full Scholarship + Travel Expenses - $500)
Brian Tse (Partial, 2-Days)

Please note that we still have scholarships to give away! If you would like to apply for one of the remaining scholarships (or need travel assistance), please apply today!

Subsequent winners will be announced on a rolling basis.

If you are a scholarship winner, you will be contact shortly with details about how to claim your award.

Congratulations to our ePatient scholarship winners!

Sincerely,

Larry Chu, MD

Organizing Chairman, Medicine 2.0 @ Stanford

Announcing Medicine 2.0 Stanford ePatient Scholarship Program

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:45:00 +0000

I'm excited to announce an unprecedented opportunity for ePatients with financial need to attend the upcoming Medicine 2.0 conference at Stanford University.

We recognize that ePatients often have significant financial constraints that limit their ability to pay registration fees to attend important conferences. ePatients often spend a considerable portion of their income on health care-related expenditures.

We want to make Medicine 2.0 Stanford as accessible as possible to all ePatients, regardless of their ability to afford registration fees. Therefore, we are proud to announce the largest ePatient scholarship program ever for a Medicine 2.0 conference. We are proud to offer up to 30 partial scholarships and up to 5 full scholarship for ePatients to attend Medicine 2.0 Stanford.

In addition, applicants may also apply for travel assistance to help defray the cost of traveling to the conference.

We believe partial scholarships will provide an opportunity for the most number of ePatients to attend. Registration rates for partial scholarships are:

Stanford Summit (Sept 16) $60 USD (Normally $949 USD)
Congress (Sept 17-18) $139 USD (Normally $1499 USD)
Summit & Congress (Sept 16-18) $199 USD (Normally $2448 USD)

If you are an ePatient and require a scholarship to attend Medicine 2.0, we invite you to apply today!

Click here to apply online for a Medicine 2.0 Stanford Scholarship.

Application Deadline: August 10, 2011

Scholarship Winners Announced: August 15, 2011

Smartphone application helps prevent alcohol relapse.

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:07:00 +0000

David Gustafson, Ph.D., and his colleague from University of Wisconsin-Madison designed ACHESS, a smartphone system to help prevent the relapse of alcoholism.

In his accepted abstract (#762), Dr. Gustafson recruited 180 people recently discharged from residential addiction treatment for alcohol dependency to either the ACHESS or a control group. The ACHESS system connects individuals with other ACHESS users as a means of support, requires users to complete a weekly survey able to detect "impending relapse" and offers tailored coping recommendations. The application even uses GPS to detect when the ACHESS user is near a 'high risk' location such as a liquor store, responding with alerts that link to available coping resources such as videochat with counselors or other means of support.

Don’t miss Dr. Gustafson’s talk about the promise of ACHESS at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, September 16 – 18, 2011.

Register today at the Medicine 2.0 website.

How can a local meeting attract a global audience?

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:03:00 +0000

Tejas Desai, M.D., and his colleagues from East Carolina University – Brody School of Medicine measured the usage of a medical blog/journal, Nephrology On-Demand.

At Medicine 2.0 Stanford, Dr. Desai will discuss the successes of Nephrology On-Demand described in his accepted abstract (#520). The blogs published on the website have attracted readers from around the world, providing a method for sharing medical information with an international audience. Access to the blogs requires users to complete a short survey to assess the readers’ perception of the blogs’ accuracy, objectivity, and usefulness. During his presentation, Dr. Desai will present the results of his study looking at the data in this survey, and will discuss the usefulness of attracting a global audience to local meetings through blog posts.

Don’t miss Dr. Desai’s talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, Sept 16-18, 2011!

Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

Most patients give physicians favorable ratings on online physician review sites.

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:13:00 +0000

Bassam Kadry, M.D., from Stanford University conducted a study analyzing online physician review sites that present physician information to patients and give patients the opportunity to rate physicians.

His accepted abstract (#539) identified the ten “most frequently visited online physician-review sites with user-generated content.” Each of the ten websites were evaluated for information available, different rating scales and scores, and dimensions of care that patients used to score physicians for a total of 4999 physician reviews in total.

In his talk at Stanford, Dr. Kadry will discuss how most patients gave physicians a positive rating and how the “overall final rating of the physician correlated well with the other more specific dimensions of care rated by patients.”

Don’t miss Dr. Kadry’s talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, Sept 16-18, 2011.

Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

Websites share first-hand accounts of over 60 health-related conditions and diseases.

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:38:00 +0000

Sue Ziebland M.Sc., research director of the Health Experiences Research Group, conducts interview studies for the websites www.healthtalkonline.org and www.youthhealthtalk.org. These websites have been interviewing patients to gain a first-hand account of various health conditions and illnesses. As of now, they have interviewed over 2000 patients and have covered more than 60 different health conditions. The website includes interviews with the patients, audio recordings, as well as videos about patient experiences.

At Medicine 2.0, Sue Ziebland M.Sc. will be talking about the work that these two websites have been doing, and discussing how this resource can help countless people cope with their own health issues. As the accepted abstract (#722) states, “Going online to watch and listen to real people discuss their own health journeys can provide precious insights and help to alleviate fears. This is a unique resource which will have an enormous impact on future health care delivery.”

Don't miss Sue Ziebland's talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, Sept 16-18, 2011.

Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

New program uses text messages to remind patients to take medication.

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:25:00 +0000

One of the major problems at Shuman-Liles, a mental health clinic in Oakland, CA, is that patients aren't following the recommended protocols for their drug regimens. According to the accepted abstract (#711), “50-70% of mentally ill patients at Schuman-Liles do not follow the prescribed regimen, regularly fill prescriptions, or attend follow up appointments.” Anjna Patient Education, a non-profit organization, has been working with Shuman-Liles to implement a program using text messages to remind patients of when to take their medications.

Vineet Singal, Co-founder of Anjna Patient Education, will be speaking at Medicine 2.0 about this program. As he states in his abstract, “the outreach program would utilize mobile technology for its low cost, simplicity and ubiquity; more than 80% of low-income individuals are “'heavy users' of text messaging.” Additionally, an Anjna translation team is working on translating the text messages, which will make this program especially useful for immigrant populations.

Don't miss Vineet Singal's talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, Sept 16-18, 2011.

Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

Online support fills care gaps for patients with breast cancer.

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:27:00 +0000

Jackie Bender and her colleagues at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University of Toronto and University Health Network conducted a study “aimed to identify the extent, nature and conditions of online community use among breast cancer survivors, known to be peer support providers.” The results of this study speak to the potential of online communities to "fill gaps in supportive care services by addressing unmet needs of breast cancer survivors."

According to their accepted abstract, (#659) "cancer peer support providers are in a unique position to provide insight on the role of online communities in relation to other sources of supportive care." They surveyed the attendees of a support group facilitator-training workshop in Canada from September 2008 to May 2009. The questionnaire asked about the extent to which participants used online communities, when, how often, and why, as well as why not. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize responses. A purposive sample of twelve survey participants with diverse disease characteristics were interviewed on how they used online communities as a resource, and how in their opinion, online communities compared to other sources of supportive care.

Don't miss Jackie Bender’s talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, September 16-18, 2011. It is an opportunity to learn and network in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Regular registration for Medicine 2.0 at Stanford ends in less than two weeks on Monday, August 1.

Register now at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

Researcher analyzes content of 3,773 health-promoting iTunes apps.

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:31:00 +0000

James Barrett and his colleagues at Brigham Young University did a study to provide a panoramic view of the thousands of paid apps pertaining to the health and fitness category on iTunes.

The researchers created a database of 3,773 paid apps under the Health and Fitness category of iTunes, including the app title, the developer’s description and the price. Each app was coded according to one of the CDC’s core content areas for health promotion, which included diet, exercise, personal health, sexual and reproductive health, and sleep disorders. Each app was coded to determine its role as a predisposing, facilitating, or reinforcing factor.

Find out the results of this analysis at James Barrett’s talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, September 16-18, 2011.

Regular registration for Medicine 2.0 at Stanford ends in less than two weeks on Monday, August 1. Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

Can distributing high quality health information to the general public improve overall health?

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:30:00 +0000

António Vaz Carneiro, MD, PhD, from Harvard Medical School implemented a program in April 2007 to distribute a large quantity of health information to the general public in Portugal. Research over the past 30 years has shown that people can protect their own health through adopting healthy lifestyles, and that there has also been a great increase in the interest of the general public in health and biomedical research. This program focuses on increasing the availability of health and biomedical information to a Portuguese speaking public, and will not only benefit Portugal but other Portuguese-speaking countries (e.g. Brazil) as well.

This program will focus on utilizing web 2.0 as a mode of communication to reach different portions of the population with differing ages, education levels, and information needs. As Doctor Vaz Carneiro states his accepted abstract (#707), “there is great potential in a nationwide initiative to improve the availability of health information for the general public, and thereby to improve its health.”

Don't miss the Dr. Vaz Carneiro's talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, Sept 16-18, 2011.

Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

Researcher ranks the top ten web 2.0 apps for health professionals.

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:25:00 +0000

In recent years, there has been a skyrocketing of interest in new mobile technologies and how they can be used to enhance higher education and the practice of medicine and health sciences. Rhoda Weiss-lambrou, professor of occupational therapy at University of Montreal, examines the current integration of the iPhone and iPad into American and Canadian universities and hospitals.

At Medicine 2.0, Professor Weiss-lambrou will talk about the significance of mobile devices and how they can be used as tools for communication, collaboration, and social networking. The talk will also focus on how using mobile technology will potentially change how medical education is currently taught. In her accepted abstract (#699), she states “New forms of communication, collaboration and engagement in both the classroom and clinical settings, create new frontiers for collaboration across disciplines and provide us with original opportunities for academic innovation, collective intelligence and knowledge creation.”

Don't miss Prof. Weiss-lambrou's talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, Sept 16-18, 2011.

Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

BJ Fogg Confirmed as Sunday Opening Keynote Speaker

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:32:00 +0000

I'm absolutely delighted to confirm Dr. BJ Fogg, Director of the Persuasive Technology Laboratory at Stanford as the Sunday opening keynote speaker for Medicine 2.0 Stanford.

Dr. Fogg is a world-renowned expert in the use of persuasive technologies to change behavior. Trained as an experimental psychologist, Dr. Fogg seeks to understand how technology can be used to change people’s beliefs and behaviors.

His work empowers people to think clearly about the psychology of persuasion and then to convert those insights into real-world outcomes.

BJ has created a new model of human behavior change, which guides research and design in the real world. He is the author of Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do, a book that explains how computers can motivate and influence people. His upcoming publication is “5 Secrets of Behavior Change.” Fortune Magazine selected Fogg as a New Guru You Should Know. He is the founder and director of the Mobile Health conference Stanford.

Dr. Fogg will give his plenary session keynote address to the World Congress of Medicine 2.0 Stanford on Sunday September 18, 2011.

Don't miss his talk! Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

Website highlights health issues by following celebrity diagnoses.

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:33:00 +0000

Mark S. Boguski, M.D., Ph.D co-founded the website http://www.celebritydiagnosis.com with Michele Berman, M.D. to report on common diseases affecting uncommon people, and to include the medical facts behind the headlines. This website portrays a series of teachable moments in medicine, which highlights health issues by following celebrity diagnoses.

At Medicine 2.0, Dr. Boguski will discuss how social media can be used to communicate educational health information to a large number of people. He states in his accepted abstract (#670) that “we have created a multi-channel platform to systematically create and distribute Teachable Moments in Medicine® using blogs, Facebook and Twitter. This system has the potential to educate and inform millions of consumers in a cost-effective manner since three-fourths of all Americans are online and virtually all take some interest in popular culture.”

Don't miss Dr. Boguski's talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, Sept 16-18, 2011.

Are orthopedic surgeons in Israel willing to provide an "internet prescription" for patients?

noreply@blogger.com (AIM Lab Stanford) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:25:00 +0000

Lena Rosenmann and her colleagues in Israel at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center investigated the willingness of orthopedic surgeons to provide an "internet prescription" for their patients.

This study was conducted to examine the attitude of orthopedic surgeons toward internet-educated patients. The authors did a cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative sample of orthopedic surgeons. They prepared a questionnaire about surgeons' attitudes regarding their patients’ internet use which contained 12 closed questions. According to accepted abstract (#595), the survey included questions about "the percentage of patients who search the internet, referral of patients to different education sites, data quality, influence of internet-educated patients on physician authority, the doctor-patient relationship, patients' control, perception, and compliance, unnecessary tests and interventions and final health outcome."

Don't miss Lena Rosenmann’s talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, September 16-18, 2011. It is an opportunity to learn and network in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Regular registration for Medicine 2.0 at Stanford ends in less than two weeks on Monday, August 1. Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

iPhone diabetes apps increase 400% but lack privacy.

noreply@blogger.com (AIM Lab Stanford) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:02:00 +0000

Taridzo Chomutare at University Hospital of North Norway and colleagues have done a review of iPhone Applications for Diabetes Self-Management available in the Norwegian market.

According to Chomutare, "We are experiencing an increasing growth in interest for mobile health (mHealth) applications for self-management of blood glucose (SMBG)".

In their accepted abstract (#583), the authors noted a 400% increase in the number of diabetes applications for the iPhone platform between Spring 2009 and February 2011. They studied the types of features available on the apps, including, (1) self-monitoring (blood glucose, physical activity, diet, weight, insulin and blood pressure), (2) functional integration of social media, (3) data export and (4) synchronization with Personal Health Records (PHR) or portals.

The found that most apps lacked privacy protections and that social media hype hasn't yet translated to seamless functional linking of self-management of blood glucose to social media and web 2.0 applications.

Don't miss Mr. Chomutare's talk at Medicine 2.0 Stanford in September. Learn about this and other mobile health applications at Medicine 2.0 Stanford, Sept 16-18, 2011.

Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.

PLoS One Publisher to Speak at Stanford Summit

noreply@blogger.com (Larry Chu, MD) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:11:00 +0000

We are delighted to confirm Peter Binfield as a speaker at the Stanford Summit at Medicine 2.0. Dr. Binfield is publisher of the open-access scientific and medical journal PLoS One.

After graduating with a PhD in Optical Physics from Aberdeen University, Pete Binfield began his publishing career at Institute of Physics Publishing in Bristol, UK as a Commissioning Editor in their books program. From IoPP, he moved to Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) in the Netherlands, where he ran their Major Reference Work program (encyclopedias and handbooks) and then held a variety of positions at KAP, including the management of the Physical Sciences group (Physics, Materials Science, Chemistry) and the directorship of the Plant Sciences and Earth & Environmental Sciences division. KAP merged into Springer Publishers, and during that period he held a position in Business Development, working on projects such as e-books, e-reference works and the Springer Open Choice program. In 2005 he moved to the US to live in California and work for SAGE Publications running their successful US Journals Division (some 220 journals across medical and social sciences). Since April 2008, Peter has been running PLoS ONE, and in September 2009 he also took on overall responsibility for the PLoS Community Journals.

Don't miss Dr. Binfield's talk at Medicine 2.0 in September.

Register today at the Medicine 2.0 Website.