Tech Medicine Links for 8.26.8

Lots of new health care apps for the iPhone. Among them is "Quitter," an app designed to help smokers quit.

Should the medical profession regulate medical bloggers? Dr. R. W. Donnell weighs in here. American Medical News discusses the issue here. A paper in the Journal of General Internal Medicine sparked the controvery with these conclusions:

Blogs are a growing part of the public face of the health professions. They offer physicians and nurses the opportunity to share their narratives. They also risk revealing confidential information or, in their tone or content, risk reflecting poorly on the blog authors and their professions. The health professions should assume some responsibility for helping authors and readers negotiate these challenges.

An article in JAMA advises doctors to be aware of how they are portrayed online. E-patients has a discussion.

What's happening with Google Health? On the Google Scholar Blog, Dean Giustini provides an update.

Forbes weighs in on Health-related iPhone applications and websites with "Health Tips On Your iPhone."

MedicalPlexus is a new professional network for physicians founded by a group of Harvard residents and MIT graduate students. Medgadget has a review.

As expected, medicare has expanded the list of "no-pay" hospital conditions. The Wall Street Journal comments.

Ozmosis compares Medpedia and Google Knol, both new Wikipedia-like environments aimed at the creation of authorotative content.

And finally, from MAKE Magazine: The Heart Robot is an "emotive puppet" that is designed to "investigate the effects that a seemingly emotional machine can have on humans."

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