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Dr. Twitter - Crowdsourcing a Diagnosis
Dr. Twitter - Crowdsourcing a Diagnosis
Hungarian doctor Bertalan Meskó uses Twitter as a tool in his medical practice.-
Debrecen-based Bertalan Meskó, a medical doctor who tweets under the name @Berci and has more than 6,000 followers, reported on his blog [en] that he was listed among the Top 10 Medical Tweeters on Project IVLine. He wrote this about his Twitter experience: “Whenever I have a question about my profession, PhD, or social media, generally I receive a valid and relevant answer in minutes.
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Meskó explains on his blog, Science Roll, how he uses Twitter.
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These days, I use Twitter for many reasons: to ask clinical questions to look for medical papers to find new contacts to receive speaker invitations to get feedback about my projects to look for collaborators to find content for my presentations, etc.
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Here's a sample of Meskó's recent tweets:
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Today, I'll talk about Facebook in medicine and the era of e-patients at my Internet in Medicine course at the Univ. More details later...
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Can anyone help me about the cell sorting of peripheral blood mononuclear cells?
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Meskó is also the creator of Webicina, a site targeted to crowdsourcing medical information.
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Webicina was built and designed to help medical professionals and patients enter the web 2.0 world. Webicina aims to serve as a bridge between medicine 2.0 and traditional medicine.
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Crowdsourcing in medicine is becoming common online. There are several different website dedicated to this technology.
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Cancer Commons brings together leading physicians and scientists in each type of cancer to create an open-source wiki-style database that will catalogue the different genomic subtypes of each disease and show how patients are responding to different treatments.
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Find the best treatments, feel better faster. CureTogether gives you access to 11.9 million data points shared by 26,000 members across 589 conditions.
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Crowdsourcing 'contests' have emerged from this social media initiative, prompting scientists to find the cure to forgotten diseases.
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Crowdsourcing contests seem to be like a shot of espresso for research communities, energizing and propelling them toward discoveries. These contests have the power to direct which areas of science and medicine continue to be explored and which are abandoned.
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Prize4Life’s $1 million incentive, the largest ever reported for a specific medical contest, brought together previously inaccessible resources. The non-profit is offering another $1 million for a treatment or cure that extends the life of ALS mice by 25% in lab experiments, an ambitious number considering that no experiment to-date has come close to those results.
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The medical establishment is about to get a dose of web 2.0-style medicine in the form of a crowdsourced, socially networked contest that opens the fight against Type 1 diabetes to the public at large — and to Harvard’s medical research departments — using InnoCentive’s online challenge platform for competition and collaboration.
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