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Posted in List, Top 10, health, review, search, searchengine on Dec 30th, 2008
Mednar has just been voted the ‘clear number one‘ by Medical librarian and author - Hope Leman (writing for AltSearchEngines.com) in her Top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008.
My list is based on ‘rapid resolution’ at the bedside (or at least pretty close to it!). Needing to find answers to clinical questions, guidelines, images to demonstrate signs [...]
Posted in education, evidence based medicine, search, searchengine, technology on Dec 30th, 2008
Mednar is a one-stop federated search engine designed for professional medical researchers to quickly access information from a multitude of credible sources. Researchers can take advantage of Mednar’s many tools to narrow their searches, drill down into topics and discover new information sources.
Mednar is here and it is good. Check it out medical librarians, public library staff, [...]
Posted in education, elearning, evidence based medicine, health, review, search, searchengine, technology, telehealth on Dec 18th, 2008
Health Sciences Online (HSO) has launched claiming to be a ‘virtual learning center’ which aims to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge using the search technology of Vivisimo. HSO (www.hso.info) is a portal with browse and search functions with access to a comprehensive collection of top-quality courses and references in medicine, public health, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, basic sciences, [...]
Posted in bookmarking, education, emergency medicine, networking, review, search, searchengine, social on Dec 5th, 2008
The times they are a changing.
With the era of Generation Y doctors; open source publishing; micro-blogging; stumbling and tweeting now upon us it is important to review the potential implications of the internet age on emergency medicine.
The generational transition behind this digital revolution has already occurred in many other employment sectors and as emergency physicians [...]
Posted in anaesthetics, education, elearning, lecture, review, search, searchengine on Nov 5th, 2008
The many and varied world of the HealthCare blogger and Health Tweeple has led me to be connected with @doctorblogs, which in turn led to the exploration of the blogs on OnMedica.com.
OnMedica has a great range of clinical articles, blogs, news and views but I was particularly taken with the medical search engine ‘Dr Socrates Medical [...]
Posted in education, elearning, emergency medicine, evidence based medicine, health, search, searchengine on Nov 1st, 2008
There is a Brobdingnagian amount of health information on the web - becoming more gargantuan every day. So how does one stay informed and on top of ones game in this pixelated world that never sleeps. Textbooks are great for reviewing well-recognized facts and journals great for reviewing research developments (if a tad slow in [...]
Posted in Administration, clinical interpretation, education, elearning, search, searchengine, timesaver on Oct 30th, 2008
The Lancet Informing and Reforming Medicine
The Lancet.com gets a makeover and has relaunched following an extensive review of the readership. Employing ‘development partners’ The Lancet’s new website has essentially been designed ‘with physicians, for physicians’. This new site should reduce the problems with the old site such as repetitive login requests, poor search functionality and [...]
Posted in bookmarking, search, social, timesaver on Oct 23rd, 2008
Collation viewers and aggregators are two-a-penny and I have already reviewed many. I wanted to draw your attention to Alltop.com as an excellent alternative to iGoogle, Pageflakes, Simply Headlines and the like.
Posted in education, evidence based medicine, networking, search, searchengine on Oct 7th, 2008
Advancing medical search for health professionals is a hot topic. We have already reviewed SearchMedica, GoPubMed, Hakia PubMed and Semantic Medline Cognition -now we turn our attention to ScienceRoll Search Engine.
Personalized search home pages such as BuildaSearch, Rollyo and Samfind are not new to the search genre, but well structured medical search engines with credible sources [...]
Posted in gadget, search, technology on Sep 25th, 2008
Over 1600 eponymous signs, symptoms and syndromes packed into this free website - alphabetically sorted and ready to read on your iPhone, Palm or windows mobile. Impress your friends with your knowledge of ‘Jumping Frenchman of Maine Syndrome’ or ‘Kew Gardens Spotted fever’…you know you want to
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