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" The Acute Care Region East and the University Medical Centre UNC St Radboud are organising the first Care 2 . 0 Congress. It is to be a gathering with an interactive programme about the possibilities the Internet can hold for the care sector for and by healthcare professionals" They do a great job at the Acute Care Region East. It seems they willingly decided to take this path of Web 2.0 integration in all Health Care aspects and this event is focussing on it. Some info in English The Zorg 2 . 0 Congress will be held on March 2 4, 2 0 0 9. More info & registration: www.azo.nl/zorg 2 0 .htm (in Dutch) More background information about the acute care region Acute Zorgregio Oost at www.azo.nl Related articles by Zemanta National Dialogue on Health IT Publishes Final Report (Uses Scribd in True Web 2.0 Fabulous Fashion) (healthmgmtrx.blogspot.com) Health 3.0 - or: whatever happend to Health 2.0? (blogs.sun.com) Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival Edition #33 (ivor-k...

This first part of the PubMed Toolbar Screencast explains the many options users have to adjust the Toolbar Settings to their own liking. Some options are: shrink/unshrink toolbar. This leaves only the icons with mouse-over text and saves space add gadgets (widgets): for business or pleasure clear your search history The Toolbar Options has 4 tabs with loads of settings: Personal Components: email notifyer, privacy, weather, radio(podcasts) Predefined Components: here you can choose which items of the toolbar you want to toggle on/off. If you do not like the News Ticker, just de-select it here. Useful Components: Add your own apps buttons on the Toolbar for fast access: All Microsoft Office apps, Paint, MSN, Registry editor etc Additional Settings: Very useful to set the functionality of the search box for search history, text selection, serch database preference etc. Related articles by Zemanta PubMed Toolbar in the Spotlight (digicmb.blogspot.com) PubMed Search & News Widget ...

a great visual presentation of how Twitter can contribute to Health: http://vizedu.com/2009/01/Twitter-And-Health-2.0/ Twitter And Health 2.0 Tags: CaseStudy , Collaboration , Twitter And another great summary via Slideshare: "140 Health Care uses for twitter" 140 Health Care Uses For Twitter View more presentations from philbaumann . (tags: microsharing care )

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...

Zemanta has suggestions while you write inside your blogging dashboard ! It tries to understand your text and recommends images, related links, tags and more. I am using Blogger to write my posts and setting up the Zemanta Firefox plugin was pretty easy. When having the Blogger dashboard open it presents a special window next to the concept post. The content of the post is being scanned and at least 5 things are happening automatically: based on semantic search it offers to add links to parts of the text. I see many Wikipedia suggestions. I wonder if I can direct this anymore, i.e. with telling it to insert my Delicious links. it presents suggestions for Tags & Labels. They can be included with one click. I do not see an option to add extra labels. Pictures are shown the should relate to the text. They come from either from the web searched via an filter or from your own stuff from Flickr . Your own stuff can be entered in the Preferences. With a max of 160 feeds via OPML ...

Very recently a new New PubMed / Medline Search Interface was launched: NOVO/SEEK novo | seek is a search engine for biomedical literature in Medline that will help you to: Retrieve meaningful documents related to your search. Narrow your search to find the relevant scientific articles . Identify the most relevant biomedial concepts to your query. It is amazing! If offers a clear concept analysis with visual relevance indicators per concept! But not Mesh?I have to have a closer look soon, after I did read David Rothmans post about it, which is not visible at the moment Related articles by Zemanta Top Health Search Engines of 2008 [Highlight HEALTH] (highlighthealth.com) Launch new search engine PurpleSearch (digicmb.blogspot.com) PubMed sends out a few new blooms: simplified web links (shelved.blogspot.com) News, Search Technologies: Give Mednars a Try (creakysites.wordpress.com)

ScienceRoll Medical Search is a new federated search tool created by Bertelan (Berci) Meskó together with PolyMeta . Scienceroll Medical Search is a personalized medical metasearch engine . You can choose the databases you want to search in and exclude any of them to make your search as individualized as possible. ...The aim is to create a useful, editable metasearch engine for the entire medical community. And it does what is said: there are 4 major search categories (Basic Health Information, Drugs, Organizations and Research Information) with all together 23 "databases" which can be selected by choice. it delivers fast results (within 10 second) presented in manageable merged first set with an " Also Consider" advice a clustered overview of Topics, Date and Format in a relevance ranked order I hope Berci is working on two major things that I and many others (clinicians and other medical staff) would love ..: a drill-down option for the results (incl. sele...