First part of the Prezi.com slideshow: Life after web 2.0

• History of the internet
• Buzzwords! (there is no physical difference between web or web 2.0)
• Features of web 1.0, web 2.0 and web 3.0
• Concept of semantic web: example of collecting stamps
• I write documents about all of my stamps and later I want to find stamps with red background
• What to do? I do a search but will find the Red Cross stamp and other stamps that have red in their names but don’t have a red background.
• Solution: tell the computer stamp is a stamp, but red is a colour.
• Give meaning to information.

• Wolfram Alpha medical/clinical examples.

• + OpenID, interoperability (peoplebrowsr.com)
• Powerset.com, Hakia.com, Freebase.com
• What’s next?
• Web 4.0? (glidedigital.com)
• myrl.com, mobile health 2.0, internet TV, fitness gadgets and new screen technologies

Take-home message: The story is just about to begin…

Second part of the slideshow: Summary of the last 10 weeks

• 10 weeks – 20 slideshows
• 2 slideshows each week
• 2 major questions in each slideshow
• Examples for all the tools and sites we have talked about. Many many examples.
• This is the first university credit course of its kind in the world.

Take-home message: I hope I could help you on your way towards web 2.0…

Third part of the slideshow: Survey results

• Students filled in a survey before and after the course.
• Now I analyzed the results which we will publish in a peer-reviewed journal soon.

• Definition of virtual worlds
• Why do we need a second life?
• community + online games + simulation
• One example is secondlife.com

A shorter version of the original slideshow with my own narration:

• More than 20 million users, 30,000,000 online hours
• What does SL mean for people?
• It used to mean gambling (but not now)
• Game? work? (The number of Second Life residents generating more than $5,000 in monthly income has more than quadrupled to 116 in the past year, according to San Francisco’s Linden Lab, owner of Second Life.); place?; tool?; entertainment?; sport?; opportunity?; appearance?
• Technological barriers: register, download, install, open, log in
• You can fly, walk, teleport, buy, sell, build.

• Communication (chat, IM, e-mail, voice)

• advantages (3D, media content, fast communication – SL fitness)
• disadvantages (reliability, serious hardware requirement)
• why do we need a SL?

Source

• Virtual Reality (VR) examples in therapies

Take-home message: great opportunities for patients and medical professionals as well.

Second slideshow:

• Summary of how Second Life can be used in medicine and healthcare

• How do medical students and physicians use it?
• AMMC
• Imperial College of London
• NHS London
• Scifoo Lives On
• Genome Island and many more
• Patients?
• Healthinfo Island
• Virtual Ability
• SLStroke and many more
• Where to follow health events?

Take-home message: Second Life provides useful tools to organize meetings, educate and learn without borders.

Free e-guide about medicine and virtual worlds on Webicina.

• What is new media?
• Internet in Medicine: 2000 vs 2010
• How to deal with reporters as a medical professional: tips and tricks
• We don’t watch TV on TV any more.
• Statistics about Youtube (pros and cons)

• ustream.tv; Twiddeo.com
• How could a doctor reach the patient? (newspaper, ads, word of mouth)
• How can they reach them now? Through online videos such as scivee.tv, thedoctorschannel.com, emedtv.com
• Sites of Medical/Scientific Videos: The List
• Podcasts: Is it easier to read or to listen?

• List of best podcasts
• Automatic podcast: Odiogo
• Doctor Radio Show: Doctor Anonymous (a personal message for the course from Doctor Anonymous)

• Lifehacks about how to be efficient online

• Being up-to-date: Google Reader, Webicina, Google Alerts, e-mail filters in GMail
• Collaboration: Google Docs, Connotea.org, etc.
• Clinical Cases: Medting, Clinical Cases and Images, Cases Journal
• Conferences: conferencealerts.com, gotomeeting.com
• Tools: Second Life, Google Calendar, podcast
• Twitter tips

Take-home message: Make your online work as efficient, productive and time-saving as possible.

Second slideshow: Education 2.0

• What we have to face: lack of inspiration (educators) and lack of motivation (students)
• But we can find motivation and inspiration online
• e.g. Ted Talks - Ken Robinson

• Why? We’re changing (students, even children use different communication channels) - Vision of students;

• We’re digital natives, Generation Z.
• Many examples, statistics about the problems with education
• “If you want to teach me, you first have to reach me”

• Wikipedia, Quiz.md, mind mapping, Exam General, slideshare, Second Life simulations, thinkanatomy.com, twitter, friendfeed, and many more examples students can use in their studies

Take-home message: The web is full of educational resources. Use them wisely.

• What is social media
• Focusing on 3 topics:
• 1) hospitals in social media

• How Mayo Clinic uses social media

Lee Aase’s slideshow about Mayo Clinic

• 2) doctors promoting practices via social media
• Describing Hello Health

• Why doctors can organize their practices properly?
• Homepage = reputation
• 3) mobile health
• mHealth enters spotlight
• Infographic: Health care’s mobile revolution
• Health and medical mobile apps and solutions

Take-home message: Doctors, hospitals and scientists use social media for different purposes. Find your strategy and the proper tools.

Second slideshow: Collaboration Online

• Collaboration so far: mails, e-mails, etc.
• Now: docs.google.com (how to edit, open, save, publish, etc)
• Zoho.com
• What kind of offline tools we have to substitute online?
• Table = wiki
• White board = Twitter
• Notes = Google Docs
• Talk = Skype
• And many more: Google Groups, blogs, Friedfeed rooms, Flickr.com…
• Sharing examples: writing manuscripts with Google Docs; finding collaborators on Friendfeed.com, etc.

Take-home message: There are no boundaries of collaboration any more.

First slideshow on medical wikis.

• We need wikis for collaboration, teaching, organizing events, etc.
• Definition and history of Wiki
• Wikis in plain English:

• Medical wikis, featuring two examples: Askdrwiki and Radiopaedia
• How to launch a wiki on Wikia, Wikispaces.
• Classification of diseases, WHO project using a wiki in ICD classification
• 3D Wiki = Second Life?

Take-home message:

If you want to share and create content online, a wiki is a great tool to use.

I’ve been a Wikipedia administrator since 2006 so this topic is really close to my heart. Second slideshow is dedicated to medical Wikipedia issues.

• Facebook + Google + Flickr (=) Wikipedia
• How to build an encyclopedia? Pay professionals? Certainly not.
• I believe in the power of masses.
• Wikipedia statistics, history (Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales)
• 10 most visited websites in the world: Wikipedia is the 5th one.

• Why is Wikipedia great? (Free, fast, comprehensive, discussions, easy to edit, objective, etc)
• Why it isn’t great. (Almost the same reasons)
• Vandalism and how we fight it: Huggle
• Basics of editing an article; page history, talk pages

• A Wikipedia article minute by minute:

• Basic guidelines: Be bold, objective, no hoax, don’t copy and notability issues
• 10+8 Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
• A few controversies (Seigenthaler in 2005; Congress in 2006; Essjay in 2007)
• Encyclopaedia Britannica vs Wikipedia; my analysis
• Medical Wikiproject, Medicine Portal, article assessment
• Editing process: from a Good Article to a Featured Article
• Illustrated licensing tutorial for Wikimedia Commons
  
• Sister projects
• Uncyclopedia

Take-home message:

Wikipedia is a great place to start your research, but should never be the last source you finish your research with.

• Who is a good patient? (referring to I am a good patient, believe it or not; Alejandro R Jadad, Carlos A Rizo, Murray W Enkin; BMJ  2003;326:1293-1295 (14 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7402.1293 )
• Types of patients: the powerful other; external controller, internal controller or google patient or brainsucker or googlers
• An e-patient is equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged, equal and expert.
• Examples (several stories) including maartensjourney.com, Kerri and many more including Jen:

• What do e-patients use? Websites (Web MD), blogs (fightpompe.com, sixuntilme.com); Second Life (Healthinfo Island), services (sugarstats.com or traineo.com)
• Community sites:
• Patientslikeme.com: Featuring the research they’re doing
• imedix.com: real-time chat
• dlife.com: biggest diabetic community
• What to do with medical charts and papers? Introduction to the world of personal health records (Google Health,Microsoft Healthvault).
• How does a community work? I posted a message on Twitter, Kerri replied to it and made a video message for the students.

Many thanks to e-Patient Dave deBronkart who also had his voice heard:

Other videos from e-patients:

• Statistics about how patients use the web (source is Pew Internet Project Survey)
• How to help e-patients as doctors (don’t use jargons, be patient, show credible sites focusing on medically reliable information)
• How to judge the quality of a medical website, step-by-step. Using Webicina, HONcode, HBCE.

Take-home message:

Physicians of the 21st century must be qualified to meet the expectations of e-patients. They’re the new generation of patients.

Second slideshow: Doctors in social media

• What is social media?
• Traditional vs social media (pros and cons)
• I have an opinion and post it online, but others have their own opinions as well
• It becomes hard to find information and we need places/sites where information is collected and selected by other experts and collegues.
• How to find a collegue or get answer for a medical question? By using telephone, Google or Facebook? Certainly not…
• We need medical community sites (and crowdsourcing)
• Examples: Sermo.com, Nature Network and many more.
• Microblogging (Twitter and Friendfeed)
• Advantages of medical communities, disadvantages
• Privacy issues: can you communicate with patients online?
• Facebook stats and optimal privacy settings for doctors in Facebook

• General principle: Same rules apply for social media as for real life. If there are things you would never do offline, please do not do that online neither!

Take-home message:

Without properly designed strategy, don’t even think about using social media in your practice.

• Definition of blog, post, trackback, pingback (difference between them), comment, tag.
• First blog: Jorn Barger, 1997
• Technorati statistics 2011 about the state of the entire blogosphere
• Blogs in plain English:

• Types of blogs and bloggers
• Major medical blogs as examples: Kevin, MD; Medgadget; Sixuntilme; Doctor Anonymous; Street Anatomy.
• Analyzing the results of the study of Ivor Kovic et al. (Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers)

• Blog carnivals and microcarnivals
• How to educate with blogs (e.g. Alan J Cann)
• Some examples such as the recent post from Sergey Brin about his genes and the posts it led to (Gene Sherpa,Scienceroll, Discovering Biology in a Digital World)
• Case presentations on blogs
• How to write a medical blog and not get fired?
• How to deal with patients blogging (e.g. Blogger announces own death after fight with cancer)
• Dangers and how to fight them: Honcode, privacy issues, HIPAA, Webicina.com, etc.
• The lesson of Dr. Flea (and my interview with him)
• Money is not everything: the Scienceblogs.com story and many more
• Why do physicians blog?

• Future? Streaming your life. E.g.: yongfook.com

In the second slideshow, I described how to start a new blog step-by-step.

• You need to answer 3 questions first before starting a blog:
• What kind of blogger will I be? (there are 7 types)
• Where should I blog? WordPress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, etc.
• How should I blog?
• My “3 blogging rule” described what you need to become a good blogger: commitment, consistency and openness
• Shared many examples about how to build a successful medical blog.

Take-home message:

A medical blog can be a perfect channel to make new contacts, find new opportunities and share your ideas with the world.

The 2 slideshows are described in details on Webicina.com’s e-guide:

• Before, we had to surf on the web. Now we let the content and information come to us automatically.
• Definition and story of RSS.
• Advantages of RSS (easy to use, free, comprehensive).

• Statistics (medical bloggers tend to read RSS).
• RSS icons.

• How to read RSS (browser -example=Firefox; Google Reader; desktop-based readers – Feeddemon).

• An example, a real tutorial about how to follow the latest articles published on NEJM. Step by step.
• Best friend of docs? Of course, Pubmed. How to follow Pubmed updates easily.

• What to do when a site doesn’t have RSS feed.
• 3rd party Pubmed tools

• Suggestions about how to use Google Alerts efficiently.

A step-by-step guide on Webicina.com about how to keep yourself up-to-date easily.

Take-home message:

Let the information come to you and follow your field of interest easily.

Second slideshow focused on microblogging:

• Definition of Twitter, post, reply, direct message, tweeple, twitterview, etc.

• Good examples in medicine
• Medical hashtags you should use and follow on Twitter

• How to search on Friendfeed
• How to search on Twitter: tweetscan.com

• If you’re new to Twitter
• Twitter And Health 2.0: A Visual Story
• Follow me on Twitter, if…
• 10 Tips: How to filter discussions on Twitter?
• The Youngest Twitterer and the Future of Health Management
• What you have to know about Twitter
• 10 Reasons Why I Use Twitter
• Tips and Tricks: Is Twitter reliable?

Take-home message:

Twitter is the fastest channel of communication these days, but only use it if you have a well designed strategy.

• The first Google search engine in 1998
• The founders, the basic concept, the workplace, the challange search engines face
• Definition of SEO and pagerank
• Presenting the best Google applications: News, Groups, Docs, GMail, Images, Google Ads, Scholar, Talk, Youtube, Google Earth, Maps, Calendar, Trends (Flu Trends), Reader, Alerts,Translate, Google Fight

• Also some of the dead ones: Google Lively and Knol
• Google Demo Slam:

• Google+ guide:

• Talking about 23andme and how our genomic profiles will affect the future of healthcare

Take-home message: Google can make our lives easier. The question is how close we should let it come to us.

Second slideshow: Medical Search Engines

• How to search on the web (Google tricks)

• E-patients search at imedix.com, webmd.com, medgle.com
• Pubmed tricks

• Pubmed Faceoff
• Sciencerollsearch.com
• Trend trackers
• Image search (Bing.com), video search
• Semantic concept, chacha.com?

Take-home message: Search like a professional and help your patients search properly online.

• This is still the first and only university accredited course about web 2.0 and medicine for medical, dentistry, pharmacy and public health students.
• Results from last semester’s surveys which will soon be published in a medical journal.
• Highlighting the blog of the course and the Facebook page as well where we can interact.
• Positive examples of web 2.0 such as the story of Dave Carroll or the Friendfeed story and:

• Negative examples: Failbook; Chatroulette or:

• Social media statistics
• Dangers: E-patients – google patients; privacy on social networking sites; mistakes in doctor-patient communication
• Potential solutions: Webicina.com; evidence-based medicine in social media (JMIR)
• I described what web 2.0 or social media means.

• As first examples, I talked about Jay Parkinson and Tamás Horváth.
• The core points of the lectures of the next 9 weeks (blogging, Twitter, RSS, Wikipedia, social networking, e-patients, Second Life, practicing online, collaboration, podcasts, new media, education 2.0, Google, semantic search, future of web 2.0)
• Future: semantic web, mobilhealth, wireless apps, e-patients (Quantified Self), personalization, geotagging and rational web usage

• The rest of the slideshow was based on what I have recently presented in The Netherlands.

A similar presentation of mine at Doctors 2.0 and You in Paris (June, 2011):

A presentation at REshape in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2009):

Next week’s topic: Medical search engines and the Google story.