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Pew Project wants to "crowdsource" new Internet health survey

Richard Adler — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:04:22 -0700

September 29, 2008
Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics

The Pew Internet Project will conduct a national telephone survey this fall about the internet's impact on health and health care. One of the first tasks is to look at our tried and true "trend" questions and decide which ones we should repeat as is and which ones need to be updated.

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Americans doing more texting than calling

Richard Adler — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:34:42 -0700

According to the New York Times, Sept 29:

In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent text messages- more than they phoned, according to Nielsen Mobile. Since then, the average subscriber’s volume of text messages has shot upward by 64 percent, while the average number of calls has dropped slightly.

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A conference about Web 2.0 as it relates to medicine and health

Vivian Distler — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:23:54 -0700

Medicine 2.0™ is an international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and others. (When I first saw the announcement, I squirmed a bit at the "2.0" modifier and its trademark notice--doesn't 2.0 seem to be overused these days?) Anyhow, here's how the conference organizers define Medicine 2.0:

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Medical experts wanted

Vivian Distler — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:53:35 -0700

By now, I think that it is safe to say that Wikipedia plays a ubiquitous role in the world of online information. This is even true for health information. At our Spring 2007 conference on Biocitizens and New Media Technology, Health Horizons Program Director Rod Falcon noted in his presentation that, "Wikipedia is the most frequently cited source [of user-generated health content] and appears on the first page of 63% of health searches" (emphasis is mine--I marvel at this phenomenon).

A new player will soon be entering the field of online medical information: MedPedia.

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Apple & Nike partnership to promote health

Richard Adler — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:18:57 -0700

Here is the latest from the partnership of Apple & Nike to promote physical fitness.

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Putting in context another newly-launched health-related social networking site

Vivian Distler — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:45:47 -0700

Trusera--a website that allows people to share their real-world health experiences--launched last month. Its tag is "Come experience the Power of Been There." When I first came across the announcement on the bbgm blog, I wondered what would set Tujera apart from similar sites, like Daily Strength or iMedix, which I blogged about here.

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