links for 2008-02-18

• The internet: friend or foe when providing patient education?
  The Internet has changed how patients with cancer learn about and cope with their disease. Newly diagnosed patients with cancer often have complex educational and informational needs related to diagnosis and treatment. Nurses frequently encounter time and
  (tags: consumer+health+search)
• MedWorm: Medicine RSS
  "the medical RSS filter engine over 5000 authoritative RSS feeds go in hundreds of new RSS feeds by category come out"
  (tags: consumer+health+search healthcare+search+engine findability)
• Medical 2.0
  "Our main goal is to create a state of the art directory for the use of physicians, researchers in the fields of medicine and life science, nurses , others professionals in the field and consumers (patients). We are listing tools and web platforms in man
  (tags: consumer+health+search healthcare+search+engine)
• health search engines for patients | Medical 2.0
  Interesting personal filtering going on here - non-US viewpoint. Cool! Healia, Medstory, and the new health information-related extensions to Google and Windows Live Search are not mentioned.
  (tags: healthcare+search+engine consumer+health+search)
• BiomedExperts - Start
  "Bringing the right researches together and allowing them to grow their professional network is the ultimate goal of BiomedExperts (BME) - the first literature-based social networking platform, Collexis is providing BME free of charge for all researchers
  (tags: bioinformatics Web2.0 social+networks)
• MEDIE - Semantic retrieval engine for MEDLINE
  "Semantic search is to use a semantic query for finding biomedical correlations. Input a subject, a verb, and an object of a concept (or either of them) into a form. Results of the query will be shown in a second."
  (tags: consumer+health+search healthcare+search+engine NLP)
• CompletePlanet - health subtree
  A directory-driven search engine. Reasonably high quality results at first blush (sample size=1 query, significance=low).
  (tags: consumer+health+search healthcare+search+engine)
• University of Michigan, Tobacco Research Network - UMTRN - About
  UMTRN was established in the belief that, by enhancing research, the sharing of knowledge can ultimately accelerate progress toward a healthier society. The Network is designed to disseminate information and create a forum for the exchange of ideas concer
  (tags: consumer+health+search)
• HubMed - Alternative Interface to PubMed
  "The Swiss Army knife of PubMed interfaces: very clean and simple to use, but with lots of whiz bang features waiting to be explored"
  (tags: consumer+health+search healthcare+search+engine)
• Life as a Healthcare CIO: Rapid Application Development with Facebook
  "The typical approach to software selection - requirements definition, an RFP process, pilots, implementation, integrated testing, and go live - can take 18 months and by the time the software is in use, the initial requirements may have changed. For some
  (tags: innovation health+informatics Web2.0)