Healthcare-Related Search Engines | Topical Search Blog by tedeytan At one stage of search engines’ history, consumer health search engines were considered a true rivals of horizontal search engines. Taking into account the demand for online health information and the online advertising budgets of the pharmaceutical industry and health-care institutions, these search engines had a profitable business model. Moreover, Microsoft acquired one of these specialized search engines for its then newly-horizontal search engine, Bing. However, in the long run, search engines like Healia, Kosmix, and MammaHealth, made room for health information portals that comprise comprehensive consumer health information. From a business perspective, these portals can keep users in their own domain and make money from search as well as from content. Taking these into consideration, it's not surprising that nonprofit organizations undertake the development of consumer health search engines. MedlinePlus is both a health portal and a specialized search engine.
the Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare Read the Law The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress and then signed into law by the President on March 23, 2010.On June 28, 2012 the Supreme Court rendered a final decision to uphold the health care law. Below you will find all 10 Titles of the Affordable Care Act, with amendments to the law called for by the reconciliation process. Click on each Title to see a brief outline and then read the law section by section. Title I. This Act puts individuals, families and small business owners in control of their health care. Americans without insurance coverage will be able to choose the insurance coverage that works best for them in a new open, competitive insurance market – the same insurance market that every member of Congress will be required to use for their insurance. It keeps insurance companies honest by setting clear rules that rein in the worst insurance industry abuses. Subtitle A--Immediate Improvements in Health Care Coverage for All Americans Sec. 1001. Sec. 1002. Sec. 1003. Title II.
Voices | A Rich OASIS for Your Journal Club Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM I’m always scouting for papers to discuss in journal club with my students. Earlier this month, I found the perfect pair: two simultaneously published articles from the industry-funded CURRENT–OASIS 7 randomized trial, one in the New England Journal of Medicine and the other in the Lancet. First, a recap: In a 2×2 factorial design, investigators compared higher- with standard-dose aspirin (either 300–325 mg or 75–100 mg daily) and higher- with standard-dose clopidogrel (either 600-mg loading, then 150 mg/day for 6 days, and 75 mg/day thereafter or 300-mg loading and 75 mg/day thereafter) in patients with acute coronary syndromes. The NEJM article reports the main finding: a failure to demonstrate the superiority of the higher doses over the standard doses (4.2% vs. 4.4% incidence of the primary endpoint for both aspirin and clopidogrel). Teaching Point 1: Avoid simultaneously publishing articles that spin the same data in completely different ways.
Bing Health Bing Health (previously Live Search Health) is a health-related search service as part of Microsoft's Bing search engine. It is a search engine specifically for health-related information through a variety of trusted and credible sources, including Medstory, Mayo Clinic, National Institutes of Health's MedlinePlus, as well as from Wikipedia.[1] History[edit] Bing Health comes about as a result of the Microsoft's acquisition of Medstory in February 2007, gaining a foothold in the health search and health information market.[2][3] It was released for beta testing on October 8, 2007 as Live Search Health and served as the front-end to Microsoft HealthVault Search. However, on June 3, 2009, the Live Search Health front-end became fully integrated into Bing search results, accessible only via the "Explorer pane" on the left when the contextual search engine detects a health-related search query entered.[5] On January 10, 2010, Bing Health search results got an upgrade. See also[edit]
Hobbling science and scientists In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again government funding of human embryonic stem-cell research, it is time to consider the devastating implications of this chaotic funding environment. And to do that, one needs to understand how a modern research lab operates. A typical lab has 20 to 40 people, led by a senior researcher (the “principal investigator’’). Most people in a lab are doctoral students or postdoctoral students who are pursuing careers in science. Labs have many different projects under investigation simultaneously. The NIH allocates money to researchers whose proposals are reviewed by a panel of scientists knowledgeable in the field. Because the demand for money exceeds the supply, only 20 percent of the proposals get NIH funding. Lab leaders spend a great deal of their energy recruiting the right people for their lab, nurturing a portfolio of interesting projects, and raising money. This is difficult work that is high risk, but high reward.
Consumer Health Portal - Lane Medical Library - Stanford University School of Medicine A point-of-care clinical information resource containing succinct and aggressively updated clinical topic reviews. Provides fulltext access to Lane's resources. Includes the MEDLINE database, which contains coverage of over 5000 journals and more than 16 million citations for biomedical articles, including, but not limited to, clinical trials, systematic reviews, case reports, and clinical practice guidelines. Provides one-click access to important clinical resources; includes evidence-based diagnosis and treatment guidelines, Books, EBM articles, Ovid MEDLINE, Drug facts and comparisons, Drug interaction facts, guidelines from National Guideline Clearinghouse, patient handouts (English and Spanish), and local content.A medical search engine provides access to 9,000 medical and procedural videos, 1,000 books and over 500 journals from Elsevier Publishing.
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American Hospital Directory - information about hospitals from public and private data sources including MedPAR, OPPS, hospital cost reports, and other CMS files. A Case of Chronic Otitis Media Walks into an AA Meeting: Shortening the adoption curve for social media. Consider the parent of a three year-old who is part of your pediatric practice. This is the second visit within six months. During the first visit you confirmed uncomplicated acute otitis media. An antibacterial was prescribed. What does otitis media have to do with Topic 3 in the Sunday evening #HCSM chat? I would not argue that perhaps I was hung-up by the word infiltrate. It has taken me a few days to sort out my thoughts on this topic. Two comments summed up my feelings and offered a view of how I would move organizations to more quickly adopt social media. @miller7: There is an interesting top down vs. bottom up approach with social media. And nickdawson T3: wellness, administrators, experts and social media zealots. @miller7 captured the feeling I have long held that HCSM is not about large, global Pepsi type SM programs but, small discreet exercises that are developed in parallel with the organizations’ mission and corporate goals. Like this: Like Loading...
Prescription Drug Information, Interactions & Side Effects Porting A Number To Google Voice If you google the headline to this post, you are taken to this Google Voice support page which says: Although you can't currently port your existing number to Google Voice, we hope to offer this option in the near future. Please tell us if this is a feature you'd like to see in Google Voice. I am going to do a bit more than tell Google. I want to be able to port my cell phone number to Google Voice, just like I can port it to any wireless carrier. I don't understand why this is not possible. List of medical wikis This is a list of medical wikis, collaboratively-editable websites that focus on medical information. Many of the most popular medical wikis take the form of encyclopedias, with a separate article for each medical term. Some of these websites, such as WikiDoc and Radiopaedia, are editable by anyone, while others, such as Ganfyd, restrict editing access to professionals. The largest and most popular general encyclopedia, Wikipedia, also hosts a significant amount of health and medical information. AskDrWiki[edit] AskDrWiki is a medical wiki encyclopedia created by Cleveland Clinic Cardiology Fellows Kenny Civello and Brian Jefferson. The purpose of the site is to provide reliable and easily accessed health information for the medical community including physicians, nurses, and medical students. As of February 2015, although still online, the wiki had minimal ongoing contributions, with only 3 edits in 2014.[6] Clinfowiki[edit] EyeWiki[edit] Ganfyd[edit] HemOnc.org[edit] Radiopaedia[edit]
New Drugs Stir Debate on Basic Rules of Clinical Trials Monica Almeida/The New York Times, left Two Cousins, Two Paths Thomas McLaughlin, left, was given a promising experimental drug to treat his lethal skin cancer in a medical trial; Brandon Ryan had to go without it. And when, last year, each learned that a lethal called was spreading rapidly through his body, the young men found themselves with the shared chance of benefiting from a recent medical breakthrough. Only months before, a new drug had shown that it could safely slow the ’s progress in certain patients. Both cousins had the type of almost sure to respond to it. And major cancer centers, including the , were enrolling patients for the last, crucial test that regulators required to consider approving it for sale. “Dude, you have to get on these superpills,” Thomas McLaughlin, then 24, whose melanoma was diagnosed first, urged his cousin, Brandon Ryan. But when Mr. “I’m very sorry,” Dr. PLX4032 shrinks tumors in the right patients, for a limited time. Dr.