Learning tools and search engine ranking for Medicos

Recently read the Latest edition of Journal of Health informatics in developing countries. Specifically, Search engines : a study of nine search engines in four categories by Dallas Knight (Health Informatics Programme University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand). This study’s objective was to determine how search engines within different categories compare, and to look at features and trends of search engines that are commonly used for queries by both health consumers and professionals.

The query terms used for this study are

• Ulcerative colitis
• Benign positional vertigo
• Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma
• “online tool” for help with depression
• exercise after bowel cancer operation

Evaluation of the first ten sites for each scenario in each search engine included relevance, usefulness, usability of sites, and quality of health information evaluation.

Search engines within the general category (Google, SearchYahoo!) performed best overall. Meta search engines (Dogpile, Jux2) also performed well with vertical search engines (Healia, Kosmix, Healthline) next. Health portals (Revolution Health, WebMD) produced relevant useful results for common terms, but not for unusual query terms.

Other important medical education and learning tools the study talks about include

• Custom built Search engines ( eg Google, Rollyo and EureksterSwiki )
• Blog sites, wikis and podcasts
• social bookmarking with Del.icio.us and Digg.com
• RSS site feeds read by aggregators or emails
• Yahoo Pipes! for channelizing information

The few services and tools it missed include,

• Zotero firefox extension and Evernote web clipper – for online research notes
  
• Ning for community building
• Youtube(eg.youtube.com/medicaleducation) and Medicalvideos.us for videos.
• Twitter for sharing updates
• Docstoc and Scribd for document search
• Freemind for brain mapping

I think i shall now close this list or i shall be spending hours trying to compile a complete list. Anyways, most of the useful tools for medical education and learning have been mentioned here. If you can think of any more study tools or services, kindly add them in the comments.

Read the complete study Here

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Learning tools and search engine ranking for Medicos

Recently read the Latest edition of Journal of Health informatics in developing countries. Specifically, Search engines : a study of nine search engines in four categories by Dallas Knight (Health Informatics Programme University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand). This study’s objective was to determine how search engines within different categories compare, and to look at features and trends of search engines that are commonly used for queries by both health consumers and professionals.

The query terms used for this study are

• Ulcerative colitis
• Benign positional vertigo
• Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma
• “online tool” for help with depression
• exercise after bowel cancer operation

Evaluation of the first ten sites for each scenario in each search engine included relevance, usefulness, usability of sites, and quality of health information evaluation.

Search engines within the general category (Google, SearchYahoo!) performed best overall. Meta search engines (Dogpile, Jux2) also performed well with vertical search engines (Healia, Kosmix, Healthline) next. Health portals (Revolution Health, WebMD) produced relevant useful results for common terms, but not for unusual query terms.

Other important medical education and learning tools the study talks about include

• Custom built Search engines (eg Google, Rollyo and EureksterSwiki )
• Blog sites, wikis and podcasts
• social bookmarking with Del.icio.us and Digg.com
• RSS site feeds read by aggregators or emails
• Yahoo Pipes! for channelizing information

The few services and tools it missed include,

• Zotero firefox extension and Evernote web clipper – for online research notes
  
• Ning for community building
• Youtube(eg.youtube.com/medicaleducation) and Medicalvideos.us for videos.
• Twitter for sharing updates
• Docstoc and Scribd for document search
• Freemind for brain mapping

I think i shall now close this list or i shall be spending hours trying to compile a complete list. Anyways, most of the useful tools for medical education and learning have been mentioned here. If you can think of any more study tools or services, kindly add them in the comments.

Read the complete study Here

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• Yahoo Pipes (toolsforjournalists.blogspot.com)
• Dogpile Search Engine: Lighting A Fire Under Your Keyword Research (marketersdaily.com)
• Scienceroll Medical Search: Preview the results! (scienceroll.com)
• Three Points about Medical Informatics in India. (neeleshbhandari.blogspot.com)

 

Learning tools and search engine ranking for Medicos

Recently read the Latest edition of Journal of Health informatics in developing countries. Specifically, Search engines : a study of nine search engines in four categories by Dallas Knight (Health Informatics Programme University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand). This study’s objective was to determine how search engines within different categories compare, and to look at features and trends of search engines that are commonly used for queries by both health consumers and professionals.

The query terms used for this study are

• Ulcerative colitis
• Benign positional vertigo
• Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma
• “online tool” for help with depression
• exercise after bowel cancer operation

Evaluation of the first ten sites for each scenario in each search engine included relevance, usefulness, usability of sites, and quality of health information evaluation.

Search engines within the general category (Google, SearchYahoo!) performed best overall. Meta search engines (Dogpile, Jux2) also performed well with vertical search engines (Healia, Kosmix, Healthline) next. Health portals (Revolution Health, WebMD) produced relevant useful results for common terms, but not for unusual query terms.

Other important medical education and learning tools the study talks about include

• Custom built Search engines ( eg Google, Rollyo and EureksterSwiki )
• Blog sites, wikis and podcasts
• social bookmarking with Del.icio.us and Digg.com
• RSS site feeds read by aggregators or emails
• Yahoo Pipes! for channelizing information

The few services and tools it missed include,

• Zotero firefox extension and Evernote web clipper – for online research notes
  
• Ning for community building
• Youtube(eg.youtube.com/medicaleducation) and Medicalvideos.us for videos.
• Twitter for sharing updates
• Docstoc and Scribd for document search
• Freemind for brain mapping

I think i shall now close this list or i shall be spending hours trying to compile a complete list. Anyways, most of the useful tools for medical education and learning have been mentioned here. If you can think of any more study tools or services, kindly add them in the comments.

Read the complete study Here

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• Yahoo Pipes (toolsforjournalists.blogspot.com)
• Dogpile Search Engine: Lighting A Fire Under Your Keyword Research (marketersdaily.com)
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• Three Points about Medical Informatics in India. (neeleshbhandari.blogspot.com)

 

Why US needs healthcare Reforms.

Health care reform is a hot topic these days. What is health care reform? The President, Congress and people like you are talking about it. The simple answer is well, there is no simple answer.

Most Americans i know are not even sure if Healthcare is a fundamental human right ! So talking about “Health care for all” seems too far fetched for them.The argument i hear commonly says that only taxpayers should be given health care assistance and the 46 million or so people without Health insurance can go to Hell ! It seems like a weeding out plan for poverty. ” You don’t have money to buy insurance? Too bad, go sit there in a corner and die”.

All of us shall soon have to come to the conclusion that health rights are equal to Right to life and inability to pay for it cannot be a hurdle. The real problem is not the poor, it is the absurdly rising COST of health care!

A few ways to reduce healthcare costs include

• More Use of Technology
• Empower people with More information
• Payment to care providers to be based on Quality rather than the number of investigations performed. ( This is very basic actually)
• Promote healthier Lifestyle.

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Health care reforms in the US.

Health care reform is a hot topic these days. What is health care reform? The President, Congress and people like you are talking about it. The simple answer is well, there is no simple answer.

Most Americans i know are not even sure if Healthcare is a fundamental human right?! So talking about “Health care for all” seems too far fetched for them.The argument i hear commonly says that only taxpayers should be given health care assistance and the 46 million or so people without Health insurance can go to Hell ! It seems like a weeding out plan for poverty. ” You don’t have money to buy insurance? Too bad, go sit there and die”.

All of us shall soon have to come to the conclusion that health rights are equal to Right to life and inability to pay for it cannot be a hurdle. The real problem is not the poor, it is the absurdly rising COST of health care!

A few ways to reduce healthcare costs include

• More Use of Technology
• Empower people with More information
• Payment to care providers to be based on Quality rather than the number of investigations performed. ( This is very basic actually)
• Promote healthier Lifestyle.

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Health care reforms in the US.

Health care reform is a hot topic these days. What is health care reform? The President, Congress and people like you are talking about it. The simple answer is well, there is no simple answer.

Most Americans i know are not even sure if Healthcare is a fundamental human right?! So talking about “Health care for all” seems too far fetched for them.The argument i hear commonly says that only taxpayers should be given health care assistance and the 46 million or so people without Health insurance can go to Hell ! It seems like a weeding out plan for poverty. ” You don’t have money to buy insurance? Too bad, go sit there and die”.

All of us shall soon have to come to the conclusion that health rights are equal to Right to life and inability to pay for it cannot be a hurdle. The real problem is not the poor, it is the absurdly rising COST of health care!

A few ways to reduce healthcare costs include

• More Use of Technology
• Empower people with More information
• Payment to care providers to be based on Quality rather than the number of investigations performed. ( This is very basic actually)
• Promote healthier Lifestyle.

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Health care reforms in the US.

Health care reform is a hot topic these days. What is health care reform? The President, Congress and people like you are talking about it. The simple answer is well, there is no simple answer.

Most Americans i know are not even sure if Healthcare is a fundamental human right?! So talking about “Health care for all” seems too far fetched for them.The argument i hear commonly says that only taxpayers should be given health care assistance and the 46 million or so people without Health insurance can go to Hell ! It seems like a weeding out plan for poverty. ” You don’t have money to buy insurance? Too bad, go sit there and die”.

All of us shall soon have to come to the conclusion that health rights are equal to Right to life and inability to pay for it cannot be a hurdle. The real problem is not the poor, it is the absurdly rising COST of health care!

A few ways to reduce healthcare costs include

• More Use of Technology
• Empower people with More information
• Payment to care providers to be based on Quality rather than the number of investigations performed. ( This is very basic actually)
• Promote healthier Lifestyle.

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Patient education Info on Swine Flu.

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The head of the World Health Organization says the swine flu outbreak in Mexico and the United States could develop into a pandemic.WHO Director-General Margaret Chan says the outbreak involves “an animal strain of the H1N1 virus, and it has pandemic potential.”

But on surfing the Web, I didn’t really find too much information on this. So i decided to make a short educational brochure on this. You can find it below as an embed or click on this link.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/14627912/Swine-Flu-in-North-America

Swine Flu in North America Swine Flu in North America

Prevention of Swine Flu Prevention of Swine Flu NeeleshBhandari Information on prevention and chemoprophylaxis of swine flu.

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Brochures & Catalogs treatment prevention

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Create Widgets from Blogs for content publishing

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I Love playing with Web2.0 functions and today let me show you a simple way to publish your blog as a Blidget ( Widget ) Online. There are a number of free services, but i like the smooth features and polished look by WidgetBox.com.

First Log on to widgetbox.com and complete Free registration.

Then simply provide the URL of your blog. In this case i typed in meducationtechnology.blogspot.com.

After submitting the blog address, you will be taken to this window.

This window will let you choose the colour, style, background of your Blidget. If you Upgrade to a paid version, you could also add more tabs to show many more blogs, tweets and video channels.

Dont forget to ” Save for Later” after you finish editing.

Click on your widget in ” My widget box” , and you will come to the final window which lets you publish your Blidget directly as well as via HTML coding and also Java scripts.You could also directly send email links to your widget from here, No need to copy + paste HTML code.

Below is the Blidget for my Meducation Technology Blog.

I hope you try it. Its fun and easy.

 

Expensive American Healthcare

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I had made these observations a few months back. I really dont know how true they may be today since Obama has upped the ante.

That the American healthcare delivery system is out of control and wasteful is a no-brainer. Needless battery of investigations and over diagnosis, use of branded drugs over generics of better quality, impractical insurance laws, free-markets approach to health care and sedentary lifestyle are all major factors in creating the current scenario.Its like a bad spiraling black hole which only sucks you into unnecessary and wasteful consumption of health services.

Keeping the whole machinery ticking seems to be the raison d’itre de patient existence.

This video below touches on a few reasons on why health care is so expensive in America. Features like this convince that India must be doing something right in its public health policy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYC2DJWU41s

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