From Webicina:

The tools and services of web 2.0 can facilitate the work for medical professionals and help patients as well. If you would like an even more efficient medical practice; more productive research, pharma team; or you would like to know web 2.0 sites focusing on your medical condition, Medicine 2.0 Personalized Packages are created for you.

Medicine 2.0 Package is a personalized set of web 2.0 tools designed to solve your problems. If you would like to know which part of the web you should follow, which websites and services could be useful in your work, that is what Webicina can help you with.

The world is at your fingertips. If you would like to know

how to follow the medical papers of your field of interest more easily

how to create a medical blog

how to be up-to-date in your field and more productive in your practice,

Webicina's E-Learning Tools are made for you. You tell us what your problems are with effectiveness and we provide the online materials and tutorials through which you can easily learn to use the tools and methods you need to improve your service or work.

Link: Webicina

More from Berci's ScienceRoll...

Pediatric Care Online is designed around the daily clinical needs of pediatric offices. At the heart of Pediatric Care Online's content are three of the AAP's most relied-upon practice resources: the new AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care, which is the standard reference of its kind; content from the AAP's Red Book®, which provides detailed information on more than 200 childhood infectious diseases; and Bright Futures, the organization's comprehensive health supervision guidelines.

The Unbound™ Platform from Unbound Medicine, a leader in knowledge management solutions and mobile information resources for health care, is a powerful platform that supports end-to-end digital publishing activities from content creation through multi-platform electronic delivery. For Pediatric Care Online, the Unbound Platform's editorial module, uPub™, facilitates streamlined creation of modular content via distributed author networks. For users, the Unbound Platform delivers content where and when it is needed—to personal digital assistants (PDAs), the Web, or wireless devices.

Link: Pediatric Care Online

Press release: American Academy of Pediatrics Launches Pediatric Care Online™

The event occurs between October 1-31 and "walkers" can sign up at any time for $5. Participants are encouraged to log in and view the change of scenery as they "cross" the country or chat with other people along the way. With the goal of raising $250,000, many celebrities have already endorsed the product with their likeness...no word on Elvis sightings as yet!

Links: Design-her Gals Website, 2008 Gal to Gal Walk Press Release, Gal to Gal Virtual Walking Website

From the site description:

In addition to our standard module which enables identification of fertility days in a cycle, go28days can help a woman who has just given birth to monitor when her body is showing signs of fertility. This is important because it takes several days for a woman’s body to recover after giving birth.

Your chart contains only the essential data about your cycle, however you may record some additional information, such as the medication or supplements you take during that time, or anything else you wish to comment on, in a specially designated space. From there you can clearly see how your own notes relate to the chart.

When you first create a chart, customisable access rights allow you to decide who can view your records. Subsequently, you may amend your preferences at any time, in order to limit or extend other users’ access rights.

The greatest advantage of go28days is that it allows every user to independently analyse their own chart. There is no generic formula which calculates when your ovulation or peak fertility will occur. With the help of the analysis forms we provide on our website, you may interpret the signs of your fertile days, temperature surges and luteal phase. Our analysis guide is based on the following methods of cycle interpretation: Billings, Kippley, Roetzer and Double Check.

Link: go28days

(hat tip: TechCrunch)

Here's what Epocrates folks say:

The new Epocrates Online reference includes integrated drug and disease information designed for busy clinicians. So don't waste time browsing through endless pages of Internet search results — Just Search. Diagnose. Treat.

We invite you to save time with our new Web product this month AND have a chance to win a fantastic prize:

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Epocrates Online...

More about the study from Ivor Kovic...

Paper in Journal of Internet Medical Research: Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers

Why use ClearSense health reports?

Health information is an extremely detailed and complex area that, until recently, has been an area exclusively for trained health care professionals. ClearSense wants to help you understand your health information. As the only internet site designed to make health data analytics accessible to everyone, ClearSense puts a powerful set of tools into your hands and allows you proactively manage your well-being.

I've heard of Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault. Is ClearSense the same thing?

Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault are two of the most visible Personal Health Records (PHRs). PHRs are designed to let you collect, store and manage your health information. ClearSense helps you understand the information stored in your PHR through our easy to understand health reports. In fact, you will soon be able to link your ClearSense account to many PHRs to make the report creation process even easier.

More at Clear Sense...

Anatomy of a ClearSense Health Report...

I am a second year neurology resident. For the last 3 months I've been using Jott (www.jott.com) to keep myself reminded about clinical tasks that I have to accomplish at the hospital. While technically not a medical service, Jott is basically a free transcription application, hence it could be used by clinicians in many different ways. You guys should cover Jott for your readers, and I'd like to see if anyone uses it in their practice.

The letter resonated with us because we've been using Jott for about a year now, primarily to coordinate our blogging activities.

For those of you who don't know much about Jott, it is a brainchild of ex-Microsoft executive John Pollard. Jott converts your calls into text. After registering you can call a free number and Jott will recognize your cellphone. Then you are given 15 seconds to dictate your text (more time for a monthly fee). Almost instantaneously, Jott sends you, or designated people from your contact list, a typed transcript and the recording itself. Some use it as a reminder service. Others use Jott for quick recordings of thoughts. Others, like us, to coordinate group activities. The idea of using Jott for clinical duties hasn't occurred to us, but it certainly is a very interesting one.

So we would like to ask our readers: How do you use Jott or similar services like SpinVox and TwitterFone? We want to hear from everyone: doctors, nurses, EMTs, and patients. Let's brainstorm, and help each other figure out the many different uses for text services like Jott in medicine.

We recently opened up the site to community physicians as well, while upholding our rigorous verification standards through cross-referencing each member with the AMA database and then calling them at their medical practice for confirmation.

So, if you are a little apprehensive about the secrecy and flawed registration procedures at other social networks for physicians, you should definitely try MedicalPlexus.

In other news, if you want to follow up on the progress of MedicalPlexus, you should check out their blog.

MedicalPlexus is a new online medical community from a group of Harvard residents and MIT graduate students. Based on an Ajax platform called Backbase, the website aims to bring together clinicians, researchers and medical students to share clinical cases, images and videos. MedicalPlexus, a finalist for the Massachusetts Medical Society's Information Technology award, is currently open only to medical students, physicians, or residents around the U.S. who are affiliated with an academic medical center. The website is already enjoying popularity with a number of residency programs and clinical departments at Harvard Medical School and its affiliate hospitals, Brigham and Women's and MGH.

We tried the service in the last couple of weeks, and we liked its intuitive interface. MedicalPlexus is designed with two things in mind. On the one hand, the website allows clinicians to have an online place to meet and collaborate for such things as presentations and grand rounds. In the same venue, academic departments can use this platform for assignments, knowledge base creation, or other collaborative projects. The multimedia, be it images, videos or documents, can easily be embedded, tagged, and annotated.

The other important aspect of MedicalPlexus is its powerful interface designed with an individual in mind. You can mingle outside of your department/group by making friends, asking questions, or just browsing through others' projects and multimedia (or profiles, if you are into people watching).

We spoke to Nambi Nallasamy, one of the founders of MedicalPlexus, and he has assured us that each new member is carefully checked for credentials and all MedicalPlexus members are not anonymized in any way. You can see each member's credentials, place of practice, and hence have assurances that other members are real clinicians that you can learn from and collaborate with, and not just some industry trolls or journalists. As we have reported earlier, Sermo.com, a competitor of MedicalPlexus, has been plagued in the past with non-clinician registrations, and as far as we know Sermo has never taken any steps to re-register its members.

In conclusion, if you are affiliated with an academic medical center, go ahead and try MedicalPlexus, you might like what you see and learn.