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Medicine in the Virtual World: Molecules and Training
If you are looking for healthcare support groups in Second Life, click here. Learning in a Virtual World: Experience With Using Second Life for Medical Education: Most comprehensive overview ever....
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Virtual Reality Enhanced Mannequin for Resuscitation Training
Federico Semeraro and his collegues just published a paper in Resuscitation focusing on the evaluation of a virtual reality enhanced mannequin designed for resuscitation training. The objective of this...
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Health 2.0 News: iPad, I-Patients, Wii and computer viruses
E-Patients & I-Patients?: A nice overview about the definition of empowered patients or e-patients. WebMD iPad App Is A Hypochondriac’s Nightmare (Gizmodo): They conclude that it’s even easier to...
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Health 2.0 News: Anonimity, Virtuality and Crisis Communication
Clinical Trials and YouTube (Eye on FDA) Medical compliance from a patient perspective (Kevin, MD) …He relates a problem of a chemo patient, a “difficult stick” for the needle people, who asked for...
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Augmented Reality: Simply Explained
Whenever I write about how augmented reality could be used in medicine and healthcare (Augmented Reality for Twitter and Automated external defibrillator and augmented reality) it would be nice to have...
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Medical Education in the Virtual World: Please Donate!
We’ve been organizing medical case presentations and events, conferences at the Ann Myers Medical Center in Second Life for years. The problem is it costs us time, energy and money to organize these...
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Health 2.0 News: Palatometer, Telescopic Eye and Google Voice
A Closer Look at The CompleteSpeech Palatometer Searchdocs.net : Social documents search engine MedLibs Round 2.6: Jacqueline at Laikas MedLibLog just published a new blog carnival entry featuring...
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The Future of Medical Imaging
Have you every wondered what happens if you combine a 3D TV with virtual reality in medical imaging? Well, the device described in the video was developed by the University of California, San Diego and...
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Arachnophobia Clinic in 3D
Last year, I attended the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference in Long Beach, CA and also managed a blog for them where we could post interviews and interesting photos. There I came across many...
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Real-looking Android: Actroid-F
It’s truly unbelievable, we are not far from having Android nurses in hospitals.
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Internet in Medicine University Course: Virtual Reality in Medicine
The 6th week of the world’s first university accredited course focusing on medicine and social media was dedicated to virtual reality in medicine. First slideshow: Definition of virtual worlds Why do...
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10 Reasons To Attend Meetings Virtually in 2011
Dean Giustini published 10 great reasons to attend virtual meetings in 2011. I have been covering this issue for years and also released a narrated slideshow on this interesting and timely issue.
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Kinect for CPR training: Video
Federico Semeraro sent me this description about his project: The main objective of this research project is the development of a training platform for quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation of lay and...
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Organizing virtual medical events: Interview
I did an interview with a medical professional (virtual name is Vera Zhaoying) who has been organizing medical events for years in Second Life. When and why did you start organizing medical events in...
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A virtual consultation on World Heart Day!
As I mentioned before, I manage the social media presence of the biggest and most popular Hungarian Health portal, HáziPatika.com, and we have been working hard on a project that is just about to...
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A virtual cardiology consultation on World Heart Day!
A few weeks ago, I talked about how the first Hungarian virtual cardiology consultation would be organized by Webicina.com and finally it turned out to be a really successful event. We hope to organize...
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Games for Health: Recap
A few weeks ago, I was a keynote speaker at the Games for Health conference in Amsterdam. I talked about social games, crowdsourcing in medicine and science and also about the importance of including...
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Augmented Reality in Operating Rooms Soon!
A clinic in Germany started experimenting with an application using augmented reality on iPads in the OR. During operations, surgeons can see through anatomical structures such as blood vessels in the...
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Social Media in Clinical Practice: Chapter 10, Organizing Medical Events in...
When I realized Springer made the individual chapters of my book, Social Media in Clinical Practice, available, I thought it would be useful for future readers to get some insights about each chapter...
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The Dangers of the Future
In my new book, The Guide to the Future of Medicine coming out this August, I’ll feature plenty of analyses of the potential dangers we will all have to face due to new technologies. There will be new...
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