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June 16 (Tuesday) 1:30 pm SLT-2:15pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/ Virtual%20Ability/54/169/22/ Health Care New Media Marketing Conference: Connecting to Consumer's in Today's Healthcare Environment Second Life: The Key to Futuristic Communication and Patient Care Health Care Collaboration & Community in Virtual Worlds & Second Life Second only to the general concept of Web 2.0, virtual worlds are the source of more articles in PubMed than any other emerging social technology. Of the many virtual worlds, Second Life (a free, open source 3d virtual world platform) is the one with the strongest presence in health care communities, from patient groups and medical education to research and professional meetings. Second Life can enable health systems to create either public or secure private spaces for functions from patient education, outreach, staff training, remote meetings, or more. As with any social technology, understanding the context and norms of the online ...

Image by testdriverone via Flickr I had the honour to meet Bertalan Mesko this week at the Zorg 2.0 conference in Nijmegen. The 24-year old medical Hungarian student and internet entrepreneur with Webicina.com. The medical library world knows him as the person behind ScienceRoll , one of the most read medical blogs about web 2.0 and the mash-up with health care. He spoke about the use of communities for professionals in health care. With the use of Second Life as educational tool, the experience of two communities and how the training can be embedded. It is his aim to help medical professionals and patients enter the web 2.0 era by providing them with e-courses, consulting and personalized packages. First ones he launced are Diabetes and Depression . Berci is also responsible for the web 2.0 meta medical search engine you can see in the left menu of this blog. One the useful tools to help professionals to keep up to date is his PeRSSonalized Medical Search . It offers quick conv...

Visitors to HealthInfo Island in Second Life can now watch and listen to this new welcome video, made by Carolina Keats ( Carol Perryman in real life). Welcome to Healthinfo Island from carol perryman on Vimeo . What is Healthinfo Island? Funded by the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network/National Library of Medicine (GMR NN/NLM) through a grant written by Lori Bell , of the Alliance Library System, Illinois, librarians at Healthinfo Island in Second Life explore the provision of consumer health information services in a virtual environment . The island is home to a consumer health library and a medical library, as well as virtual outposts or displays run by the National Library of Medicine 's Special Information Services, contractors for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and our newest building, the Accessibility Center. This center houses another GMR NN/NLM funded projectwith the aim of encouraging awareness of vision, mobility, learning, and other d...

Image by testdriverone via Flickr I received one too for the work (as Namro Orman) done in almost three year new for HealthInfoIsland together with Carol Perryman (aka Carolina Keats)! We achieved a lot. Worked on at least 4 Grant funded projects: AIDS Information and Outreach in the Virtual World of Second Life VIRTUAL ABILITY ISLAND GRAND OPENING! Share the Health: Training People with Disabilities and Chronic Medical Conditions on how to Locate Quality Health Information Alliance Library System Receives Grant to Provide Consumer Health Information Services in Virtual World Final Project Report for HealthInfo Island Project in Second Life Now Available! We also published a chapter in a book called Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries. The Golden Leaf Award Night was spectacular, with cocktail party, limo-trip, red carpets, tv and speeches. Here is some motivation as wel l: " Almost three years ago, in April 2006, the Alliance Virtual Library(AVL), at that time the Second Life Libra...

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