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Giving Thanks is Good for You

Thanksgiving. It's a simple concept, really -- feeling and expressing gratitude for the positive things in our lives. Religious traditions, folk wisdom and self-help books encourage us to do this, and there's even scientific evidence that suggests being grateful is good for you.

So instead of complaining about my mother-in-law's stuffing and my dad's stubbornness in the matter of wearing his hearing aids, I will choose to be grateful for the many good people in my life, and for the opportunities I have.

OrganizedWisdom is a business, but it's also a mission. I'm excited about the work we've done so far to organized the world's health wisdom. It's a job that will never be done, and that's exciting too. I'm grateful for the opportunity to bring great information to people who need it, and for the chance to be part of the Health 2.0 movement.

Most of all, I'm grateful for the wonderful, smart, hard-working people who are part of our growing team. Our beta launch was a big success. We've gotten terrific feedback from everyone who's seen the site. Our work gets better with every new person who joins us. (Want to help? Consider becoming a Guide.) We're building something awesome here, and I'm thankful to be a part of it.

Health 2.0 Raises A Glass in NYC - And Launches A Community Blog!

The Health 2.0 movement is becoming more active all the time...and this week on the East Coast.

Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt hosted a fun evening last night in NYC for the East Coast Health 2.0 crowd. Here's a few of Indu's pictures and the rest are posted on the Health 2.0 Facebook Group here.

In addition to spending quality time with the folks from Sermo, Virgin, New York Times Health, HealthCentral Network, Fard Johnmar from The Digital Health Revolution, HealthWorldWeb, and several investors and local entrepreneurs, we got to meet the new editor of www.health2blog.com, a community Health2.0 blog we look forward to reading daily and writing for...

 

Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival

Greetings! It is my pleasure to present the latest edition of the Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival.

What's a blog carnival? It's a quick way to keep up to date on the "blogosphere" around a particular subject -- in this case, Medicine 2.0, the intersection of health care and the social Web. We had a deluge of submissions and I've tried to pick the best ones.

One of the most interesting Health 2.0 events of late is the Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting icon program, meant to identify thoughtful analysis of peer-reviewed research. I'm all for anything that makes it easier to find high-quality content online, and will be interested to see how this program plays out.

Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya, the folks who brought you the Health 2.0 conference last month, are doing it again, with another conference planned for San Diego in March.

Berci Mesko of Scienceroll, founder of this blog carnival, argues for the reliability of Wikipedia and Citizendum in a post that attracted some controversy and discussion elsewhere in the blogosphere.

 

The National Library of Medicine/NIH's new style guide includes a section on citing blogs and other information found on the Internet. Joshua Schwimmer, M.D., best known for his Kidney Notes blog, was surprised to be included as an example, and writes about the ensuing debate at Tech Medicine.

Mo at Neurophilosophy offers an interesting look at a brain-computer interface for Second Life that lets the user move an avatar without moving a muscle.

Philips has announced a device called the Cliniscape, meant to be a portable IT solution for physicians and other health care providers. It's bigger than an iPhone and smaller than a laptop. Full press release from DoctorsGadgets.

John Halamka, Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, joins the ranks of bloggers at Life as a Healthcare CIO. Right now he's writing about efforts to run greener data centers. Thanks to Bob  Coffield at the Health Care Law Blog for the tip.

Social networking sites are everywhere -- it seems like every day I get another e-mail inviting me to the latest community for chihuahua-owning editors who love Renaissance music, or whatever. Disaboom.com stands out a bit from the pack -- it's aimed at people with functional limitations, and recently acquired Lovebyrd, a dating site for singles living with disabilities. Medical director is Dr. Glen House (not THAT Dr. House!), a spinal-cord injury specialist who gets some of his knowledge from his own experience as a C7 quadriplegic. Tip of the hat to JC Jones of Healthline Connects on this one.

BioMed's medical image search has relaunched, reports the Pimm -- Partial Immortalization blog.

Bioinformatics Zen offers Three stories about science and the Web. They all have happy endings.

Clinical Cases has a helpful list of medical podcasts from the BBC.

Fathom, a marketing company, has produced a list of the six best Web 2.0 health tools. I am naturally
biased toward #4, our very own OrganizedWisdom, but we're in very good company here.

How many times have you heard that Google is planning a health product? eHealth notes that the official rollout of Google Health -- a personal medical records system meant to rival Microsoft's new offering -- will be released early in 2008.

Deirdre Bonnycastle presents Active Learning - Creating Meaningful Artifacts posted at Medical Education Blog. Good overview of Web 2.0 tools and their uses in med-ed.

Carnegie-Mellon's listing of the 100 Most Informative Blogs included a couple in the medical field. GruntDoc picks them out for you.

Zagat, known for its restaurant reviews, is moving into the doctor-review space with a guide specifically focused on physicians in Blue Cross and Blue Shield's WellPoint network. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn of Health Populi notes that it won't tell you what consumers really want to know -- cost and outcome.

Jimmy Atkinson mentions social networking tools like Vimo and RateMDs in a post on How to Research a Doctor's Credentials  at Medical Tourism Guide.

Toni Brayer, M.D., of EverythingHealth was either pleased or disappointed not to find herself listed on RateMD, but had a good time looking up her colleagues and agrees that patients' experiences are going to be more and more important to understanding the quality of medical care.

One of the struggles every would-be medical student faces is writing a personal statement to go with medical-school applications. Victor Castilla of Web 2.0 and Medicine gathers up some resources to help with this sometimes daunting task.

That concludes this edition.  Submit your blog article to the next edition of <b>medicine 2.0</b> using our
carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Look for Medicine 2.0 blog carnival tomorrow

I've been overwhelmed by the number and quality of posts submitted for this edition! I'll post it tomorrow as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience!

Carnival time! Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival, that is

The pace of change in the Health 2.0 world is so fast that it can be hard to keep up! That's why there's the Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival. Every two weeks, a host blog produces a roundup of recent posts about new technology, new uses for technology, and new ways of making people's health and lives better.

On Oct. 28, it'll be our turn! If you've seen (or perhaps written) a great post on health 2.0 issues recently, use the submission form to let us know about it.

The most recent edition went up yesterday at Highlight Health, and it's a great one. Host Walter Jessen does an excellent job sorting through an eventful half-month. If you've been looking for an easy way to keep up, just scan his piece for an update on a constantly-changing field.

Information Therapy Movement Taking Off

I'm in Park City, Utah participating in the 6th Annual Information Therapy Conference, hosted by the Josh Seidman and the Center for Information Therapy.  It's a great event so far and I'm looking forward to speaking about Health 2.0 trends and presenting OrganizedWisdom along with RevolutionHealth and DailyStrength on a panel hosted by Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya.

It's clear that the iX movement is evolving and is moving beyond the education phase to becoming a full-blown "movement".  Six years into the great work and education from the thought leaders attending over the years, there's no doubt the information providers, media companies, hospitals, physicians, nurses, marketers, etc. all get the value in prescribing information to patients as a solution to improving people's health, and solving some of today's biggest health challenges. 

It makes sense that just like prescribing medications to patients, one of the most essential solutions to improving patient care and people's health is to prescribe the right information, to the right patient, at the right time.

Making sure patients get quality information is perhaps the most essential solution the healthcare universe can implement when you consider that more people are now searching online for health information than seeing their doctor and that 80% of patient care today continues to be self-care.  That is, most people today continue to self-diagnose and self-treat (links to the powerpoints where I got these stats will soon be available on the iX Alliance Web site).

Attending this year are not only some of the country's largest hospitals and health providers, but also a new crop of Health 2.0 innovators as well as major media companies like the NYTimes which continues to make amazing innovations to The Gray Lady's health section under the leadership of Sarah Greene.

The energy is palpable and it is exciting to see such a great group of thinkers, entrepreneurs, leaders, health practitioners, and organizations working together to push this mission forward. There's no doubt that access to better information will help a lot of people.

Sites with spirit of Web 2.0 encouraging people to share thoughts on illnesses, doctors

The San Fransisco Chronicle has a nice round-up piece on some of the new Health 2.0 companies working to help patients.

We were happy to see OrganizedWisdom featured along with several other great companies.

Read the article, titled For these startups, patients are a virtue here.

Steven Krein Interview at Health 2.0

The Health Care Blog Liveblogging Health 2.0 Conference

Liveblogging here: http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/

Here's the post abut the social media panel OrganizedWisdom participated on.

And here's another take on the session from Francine Hardaway's Blog.

For more live blogging from the event check out health blogger Bob Coffield's posts here.

And, better yet, you can watch video of panel discussions and interviews here.

The Difference Between Web 2.0 and Health 2.0 Movement

Healthcare blogger Scott Shreve, MD has a well thought out post today that does a great job of outlining the differences between Health 1.0 and 2.0 and outlines how the Health 2.0 movement differs from Web 2.0. See the charts below and click here to read his complete post which is well worth the read.