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Added to the list of medical wikis:
WikiEcho

Self-description: “Wikiecho is a project to create a free, up-to-date and reliable online resource covering the rapidly advancing field of echocardiography.”
Intended Audience/Users: “This website is intended to be used by medical students, residents, physicians, cardiology fellows, cardiologists and cardiac sonographers.”
Contributors: Anyone who registers.
Editors/Administrators: Not listed.
Editorial Policies: Minimal, available here.

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Added to the List of Medical Wikis:
Wiki Doc

Self-description: “WikiDoc is intended to be a shared resource for housestaff (in preparation for morning report), medical students (in preparation for morning rounds) and fellows (in preparation for conferences). Nurses and attending physicians may find it valuable to share and improve upon their fund of general medical knowledge.”
Intended […]

This is a good example of the kind of “Health 2.0″ stuff that baffles me. The speaker in this video is Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. She is speaking at the Health 2.0 Conference. You can watch the embedded video or read the text of her remarks […]

In response to this post about Marcus Banks’ assertion that Professional Librarian Journals Should Evolve into Blogs, Rachel Walden (a medical librarian, a blogger and an editor at the JMLA) left the following comments:
…I tend to agree with T. Scott on these matters1, for several reasons. I don’t see any reason why librarianship journals as […]

The Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries has a new issue out.
On page 41 of the PDF, check out an article by Ioana Robu (”Semantic Web applications in biology and medicine”) that updates “An introduction to the Semantic Web for health sciences librarians” (J Med Libr Assoc. 2006;94(2):198-205.) with information […]

Patricia Anderson has posted the slides for her presentation on the SLHealthy Wiki.

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Probably should add this to the List of Medical Wikis…but perhaps I’ll hold off until it is out of private beta.

The mission of The Medpedia Project is to build and support a community of volunteers to organize — and make understandable — the world’s best information about medicine, health, and the body and to make […]

Go and read:
Introducing Web 2.0: wikis for health librarians
Eugene Barsky and Dean Giustini
Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association
Volume 28, Number 4, Fall 2007
ISSN 1708-6892
It is good, but I thought a good compliment to an article titled “wikis for health librarians” might be to make note of a number of other wikis for health librarians:
Examples […]

Jessica Berthold has written a very good, short article for ACP Internist about medical wikis for which I was interviewed in November.
The entire text of the interview is below.

What are your thoughts on the latest iteration of AskDrWiki? In the last few months, the site has taken many of your suggestions– for eg, posting an […]

Brie Zeltner of the Cleveland Plain Dealer contacted me weeks ago because they were planning on doing a follow-up to their previous article about AskDrWiki.
Their follow-up is here.
Here’s what they say about our interview in the article:
Critics of medical wikis have praised AskDrWiki for publishing an editorial policy, making a list of its editors and […]

I was asked recently in an interview:
“You’ve written quite a bit about Web 2.0 tools and medical librarianship […snip…] Are there ways in which you see health sciences librarianship 2.0 as differing from Library 2.0?”
I answered that I’m actually not all that fond of the the “2.0″ suffix, whether it is applied to “Web,” “Library,” […]

I’m NOT obsessed with television just because I wrote about House MD, the writers strike, and now Scrubs. I’m not. Really.
…Oh, shut up and give me the remote.
The TV show Scrubs mentioned tonight both online rating of physicians and patients who rely on health information from Wikipedia.
Dr. Cox: So you’re declining chemo because […]

Gaétan Kerdelhué, a medical librarian at Rouen University Hospital and author of this list of French-language medical wikis has translated entries into English so I could add them to my list. Thanks so much, Gaétan! The list of medical wikis is up to 56 entries now.
Also- Gaétan blogs here- so if you read […]

If you’re a Francophone, I’d be grateful if you’d consider helping me expand the list of medical wikis to include these French-language Wikis.
Barbara Braun kindly translated and reported on DocCheck Flexikon, a German-Language medical wiki I had wanted to add to the list. If a Francophone would be willing to provide the same […]

Elsevier's new medical wiki, WiserWiki is now live and "in Beta." 
I hadn't realized until now exactly how worried publishers might be about tools like AskDrWiki and Ganfyd. I always thought that AskDrWiki or Ganfyd, if developed and maintained well, might threaten to take business away from UpToDate, DynaMed, MDConsult or other similar […]

I recently discovered a health information wiki I’d like to add to the list, but my Spanish is very, very limited.
If you’re a Spanish-speaker who would be willing to gather the necessary information from this site as Barbara Braun (a native speaker of German) did for DocCheck Flexikon, I’d be most grateful.
Information needed follows:

Self-description:
Intended Audience/Users:
Contributors:
Editors/Administrators:
Editorial […]

Pierre Lindenbaum has created a tool called PubMed2Wikipedia:
First, the user select a set of articles about a given subject from pubmed, the software then download, prepare and format the data for a new wikipedia page. For example it creates the ‘references’ part and suggest the Categories: from the Mesh terms. I’ve also included a dictionary […]

Have you heard about Veropedia yet?

Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia’s content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited, The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, […]

A few days ago, Berci Meskó posted at ScienceRoll more of his advocacy for Wikipedia as a credible resource for medical information. Berci argues that if Wikipedia has increased external links and increased references, it must be seen as having increased credibility.
This isn’t this first time Berci made this fallacious argument, and it isn’t […]

Just stumbled across these excellent presentation slides by Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and CEO of Atlassian.

Above: Embedded presentation slides. If you’re reading this in a feed aggregator, you might need to visit the site to view them.

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