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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 Health Reports, education, elearning, emergency medicine, evidence based medicine, radiology, technology on Dec 30th, 2008
Yottalook is free radiology-centric web search engine and was designed to provide the practicing radiologists with the most important and relevant information at the time of patient care. The search engine is based on natural query analysis, semantic ontology and ranking algorithms powered by iVirtuoso. The thesaurus of medical terminologies is supported by the Radiology Society of North [...]
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 award on Dec 14th, 2008
Get your nominations in for the 2008 Medical Weblog Awards. Hosted at Medgadget.com this is the fifth year of the competition - designed to showcase the best blogs from the medical blogosphere, and to highlight the exciting and useful role medical blogs play in medicine and in society.
Categories and Current Nominees
Best Medical Blog
Best New Medical Blog (est. [...]
Posted in Administration, access block, education, evidence based medicine, grand rounds on Dec 10th, 2008
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Thanksto Alvaro Fernandez of SharpBrains for hosting a fantastic medical Grand Rounds:
Grand Rounds 5:12 - Healthcare Reform Q&A
Read on topics ranging from health insurace, attitude, training and mental health to patient outreach, technology and innovation… thanks Alvaro for hosting a great Grand Rounds
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 Emergency Musical Interlude, emergency medicine on Oct 18th, 2008
Finally, able to unwrap my copy of ‘Unfit to Practise” by the Amateur Transplants . Chock full of humorous offerings this CD has 30 fantastic tracks and 2 bonus offerings, including the Anaesthetists Hymn.
Frequent strong and potentially offensive language litters the musical genius that is the Amateur Transplants…BRILLIANT, bring it on
Visit the shop and pick up a copy - highly [...]
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 Conference on Oct 7th, 2008
13th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine
MEDNET 2008 is an international meeting aimed at bringing together researchers, developers and users involved in the application of the internet in medicine, starting either with a medical or technological background. Read more on the MedSchoolEvolution social site hosted by Ning.com
Saint-Petersburg
October 15-18, 2008
It is organised by SIM, the successor [...]
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