• A Clinical Infusion of Google Wave | phil baumann online

  Phil Baumann provides an overview on Google Wave and asks if the underlying technology offers any glimpse into improving clinical collaboration?

• Google sidewiki: what can pharma do? | STweM

  Andrew Spong ruminates about Google sidewiki and whether pharma will engage in debate regarding comments added to drug information websites.

• A TRIP Down Database Lane: A Talk With Jon Brassey | Significant Science

  The TRIP Database (Turning Research Into Practice) is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. Hope Leman interviews one of the founders of the TRIP database, Jon Brassey.

• Over 400 Hospitals use Social Media | Found In Cache

  Ed Bennett reports that over 400 hospitals in the U.S. are now using some form of Social Media.

• Behavior Change: A Central Topic at Health 2.0 | The Decision Tree

  Social contagion is of great relevance to health and was a central topic at the Health 2.0 conference last month.

• Health 2.0 Conference Day 2: Consumer Aggregators | The Decision Tree

  The world is becoming increasingly mobile. Several consumer aggregator applications presented at the Health 2.0 conference are focused on "on-demand" information and will enable patients to harness their medical data.

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• Want to know what I ware? | RobFraser.ca

  Keeping with the meme of essential medical software and "core apps", Rob Fraser describes his physical and virtual desktop.

• Create an automatic differential diagnosis list with Google Squared | Clinical Cases and Images – Blog

  Dr. Ves Dimov spotlights Google Squared and provides an example of its use as a tool for medical educators to build and share their own squares.

• Social media artists- the new generation patient opinion leader | whydot pharma

  Influential bloggers reassuring patients, community leaders petitioning for a cause, crowdsourcing ideas for health, sharing stories to raise awareness … these are just some of the methods used by a new generation of patient opinion leaders.

• Beyond Wikipedia | The Health Care Blog

  Physicians, like health consumers, rely heavily on search engines. Although Wikipedia entires often appear at the top of organic results and are frequently the first reference reviewed, doctors should be concerned about accuracy.

• Twitter goes Viral: Swine Flu Outbreak – Twitter a Dangerous Hype? | Laika’s MedLibLog

  In the midst of the swine flu outbreak, Laika examines whether Twitter is a reliable news source or just hype and useless for finding accurate information.

• Improving Your Medical Literacy | The Decision Tree

  Decreased mortality is one of a number of benefits of health literacy. While health 2.0 empowers the next-generation of healthcare consumers, we shouldn't forget about the other half of the problem.

• PeRSSonalized Medicine | Webicina.Com

  A free tool that lets you create your own "medical journal" and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place.

• Hospital Social Network List | Found In Cache

  Ed Bennet catalogs 150 U.S. Hospitals that use YouTube, Facebook or Twitter (includes links to each resource).

• 140 Health Care Uses for Twitter | phil baumann online

  What is healthcare doing with micro-sharing platforms such as Twitter? Phil Baumann has 140 suggestions.

• Twitter Doctors, Medical Students and Medicine related | Medical Student Blog

  The Medical Student Blog provides a comprehensive list of doctors, medical students and medicine-related tweets and blogs/websits.