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Webicina.Com • Practicing medicine in the web 2.0 Era
The tools and services of web 2.0 can facilitate the work for medical professionals and help patients as well. If you would like an even more efficient medical practice; more productive research, pharma team; or you would like to know web 2.0 sites focusi
Therapists Use Virtual Worlds to Address Real Problems: Scientific American
Therapists Use Virtual Worlds to Address Real Problems An emerging technique to help troubled teens combines role-play in computer-generated environments with talk therapy
G.E. and Intel Join Forces on Health Technologies - NYTimes.com
Two of the nation’s technology giants, General Electric and Intel, are joining forces to try to cash in on the trend of delivering more health care outside hospitals and doctors’ offices.
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Open-Source Healthcare
The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (in Tools for Conviviality) called a “radical monopoly.” The central function of the government’s “safety” and “consumer protection” regulations, in most cases, is either to exclude competi
Critical Distance Weblog: The 3G Doctor will see you now....
I bumped into David Doherty at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In this extended interview, he explains a number of issues all connected with mobile health. He is actively busy with developing the 3G Doctor concept, but his blog is a mine of inform
Health insurance for $10 per year using the network
deploy medical expert systems using the cell phone network to help people make medical decisions. Use the ability to integrate data from each user into broad statistical patterns to improve the models and plot the progression of epidemics, for example. Th
Medical Students Using Second Life For Training
The master’s degree in social networking isn’t the only way the U.K. is bringing Web 2.0 into education: A London medical college is actually having its students practice on patients within Second Life.
The Heart Scan Blog: Self-directed health: At-home lab testing
Done responsibly, self-directed healthcare is superior to healthcare from your doctor. While no one expects you to remove your own gallbladder, you can manage cholesterol, blood sugar issues, vitamin D, low thyroid, and others--better than your doctor. As
Disease maps can turn a crisis around - tech - 24 March 2009 - New Scientist
Launched this month, WikiMapAid will use collaborative wiki software to enable humanitarian workers and others to add health, welfare and education information to a version of Google Maps that can be viewed by anyone. The hope is that by circumventing off
InfoChange India News & Features development news India - Kerala spearheads community-care health revolution
A unique home-based palliative and chronic care movement is sweeping through Kerala. Thousands of trained citizens are volunteering two hours a week to take care of the chronically ill in villages and cities. Funding for this community-based scheme that h
Concerns Continue Over Generics Drug Seizures As Legality Debates Begin
Developing nations led by Brazil and India, along with public health providers and advocates, this week continue to press strong concern over seizures of legitimate shipments of generic pharmaceuticals destined for poor patients in the developing world. R
Slashdot | New Startup Hopes to Push Open Source Pharmaceuticals
Nothing like the open source computing movement has ever caught fire in biology or pharmaceuticals, where intellectual property is king. But drawing inspiration from the people who make Linux software, and the social networking success of Facebook, Merck'
The waste from patent monopolies ruins healthcare
This situation would require that the cost of developing scanning technology be covered through some other mechanism. It is almost certainly the case that there are more efficient funding mechanisms than the current one of relying on government created pa
The World Today - Indian Government moves to protect its culture
The Indian Government has taken steps to stop western drug companies from slapping patents on medical treatments that have been used for centuries.
Quand la "bulle médicale" va-t-elle éclater ? | AgoraVox
Le phénomène de bulle ne touche pas que les biens matériels, il concerne aussi les pratiques, les idées, les théories. Cet article démonte les mécanismes d’une bulle prête à se rompre : la bulle médicale.
Harvard Medical School in an ethical quandary: corporate-influenced professors
Mr. Zerden later discovered something by searching online that he began sharing with his classmates. The professor was not only a full-time member of the Harvard Medical faculty, but a paid consultant to 10 drug companies, including five makers of cholest
industry-pushes-for-biosimilars-approval-process-some-igos-take-notice
This raises questions about how patients can access these cutting-edge technologies, and whether the creation of generic versions – called biosimilars, biogenerics, or follow-on biologics — is feasible. Key issues with biosimilar creation include the ques
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