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Health on the Web
Health-Related Social Networks, Wikis, and More
Health and Medical Wikis
- Health 2.0 wiki:
provides a definition of Health 2.0 and provides a list of
Health 2.0
companies (broken down by category, for example, portals,
communities, advisory services, financial services, personal health
services)
- List of
Medical Wikis: David Rothman has compiled an annotated list of
medical wikis that includes the wiki's self-description, intended
audience, contributors, editors, and editorial policies
Health Records Management News
Patient Communities and Resources
* a small sampling of communities and health resources that
today's health consumers may be using
- Carol.com: Health care is sold in the
Carol Marketplace in care packages—bundles of condition-specific
services
- DoubleCheckMD: "your prescriptions. their
interactions." check for Drug Interactions and Side
Effects
- freeMD: produced by DSHI Systems
to be “an electronic doctor that conducts an interview, analyzes symptoms, and provides expert advice — for free.”
- I'mTooYoungForThis: A TIME Magazine Best 50 Website for 2007, the I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation, i[2]y, is a pioneering, survivor-led advocacy, support and research organization working exclusively on behalf of survivors and care providers under the age of 40.
- MedHelp: "finding cures together"
includes medical communities and forums staffed by doctors and a
search engine pointing to relevant articles and groups
- Organized Wisdom: a site
with the mission to organize the world's best health wisdom, styled
as "human-powered health search"
- PatientsLikeMe:
"patients helping patients live better every day" (this site is for
patients to find people with their same health concerns and on the
same drugs to get feedback on what did or did not work for them)
- Vimo (compare
hospital price for procedures): find and compare prices for
various procedures across hospitals
- Vitals.com: "always check
the vitals" provides empirical information (background and quality),
peer reviews, and consumer reviews to help consumers find a
physician
- ReliefInsite: site
enabling patients to monitor and analyze their pain (option to
create a free or premium pain diary for pain tracking which
can then be shared with medical professionals, family, or
friends)
- Xoova.com: physician
directory site designed to facilitate setting up appointments
Physician Communities
- BiomedExperts:
Biomed Experts is a literature-based scientific social network for the purpose of
bringing
researchers together and enabling online collaboration
- Sermo: Sermo "know more, know better" is Latin
for conversation and it exists as a community created by physicians
for physicians to share observations and ideas in real time
Useful (free) Web Tools for Teaching
and Research
Citation Management
- Connotea
- Zotero:
Zotero is currently a Firefox only extension; by installing Zotero on
Firefox Portable
you can take take your citations with you anywhere
- Note: While EndNote is not a free tool, it is freely
available to WSU faculty and students
Chat
- Meebo:
multiprotocol web-based IM client (msn, yahoo, aol/aim, google talk (gtalk), jabber and
icq), no download required
- Digsby: multiprotocol IM
client that lets you chat with users on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google
Talk, and Jabber
- Trillian: multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows
File Storage/File Sharing
- Box.net: 1GB of free space with multiple built-in collaboration tools
- Drop.io: create simple private exchange points called "drops"
(additional features include free sending and receiving of faxes and
voice recording)
- MediaFire: free, unlimited disk space with no sign-up required (useful for files up to 100MB)
- Windows Live SkyDrive:
free 5GB of online storage
-
Microsoft Office Live Workspace: Office Live Workspace is
another online storage option from Microsoft; while it offers less
space it does offer other functionality such as its collaborative
tools and the capacity to synchronize with Microsoft Office through
its Office add-in)
Office Suites
Photo Editing
Screen Capture, Screen Recording, and
Screencasts
Social Bookmarking
- Connotea:
combination social bookmarking and citation management tools,
particularly tailored to the scientific community
- Del.icio.us:
more general social bookmarking tool with powerful networking tools
built in; also can be used to collect resources for a particular
class or topic
- EverNote: manage all your digital information
with one web service; new notebooks are private by default unless
you specify otherwise
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