September 11, 2007
Web 2.0 and Medicine: Poster Session on Second Life
A science and medicine poster session was held on Second Life.
Poster presentations and discussion included:
- web 2.0’s impact on medicine
- medical blogs (code of ethics, rankings)
- medical wikis
- medical podcasts
- videocasts
- search engines
and the Second Life project, the Ann Myers Medical Center
A poster about Tiromed.com described a unique medical community (with more than 2600 members from 70! countries) and a presentation on Biowizard.com, a site founded by PhD students to create a free, web-based community for life scientists and physicians, aimed at making the world’s biomedical research information universally accessible and useful. So if you would like to use a more interactive Pubmed, then try Biowizard!
There was also a poster and discussion on Drug Design and web 2.0. It appears that complicated processes like drug designing become easier by using web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, mailing lists, Second Life).
Related Links:
Upcoming Related Conferences
* The third Healthcare Blogging & Social Media Summit
o September 17/18, 2007
o The Chicago Hilton, in Chicago, IL, co-located at Consumer Health World
* Personalized Medicine: Breaking Down the Barriers and Achieving Results
o October 11
o The Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
Top 10 Virtual Medical Sites on Second Life
Source: Science Roll Weblog