Tech Medicine Links for 11.23.8

Think Anatomy is an impressive collection of the best anatomy study aids on the net.

This week, Clinical Cases and Images hosts the Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival. See especially 10 Reasons Why I Use Twitter, Strengths and Challenges of Medical Education in Virtual Worlds, New Idea: Use Twitter for Daily Q&A for Board Preparation, and Screencasting and Podcasting: Experience of the Yale Medical Library.


A new study by the MacArthur Foundation suggests "America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value."

Real time digital dictation for doctors is coming to the iTunes App Store. Via the press release for Anymodal CDS Mobile (which, as of this writing, doesn't yet seem to be available):

While clinical dictation was possible before via telephone or PDA
devices, the resulting report was not available for hours. AnyModal
CDS Mobile delivers documents in real time to the physician's
iPhone, making it the first device to capture, understand and transcribe
dictation in real-time. Physicians can now immediately review and sign
off on a clinical document.

JustAnswer Health is a service which allows physicians and other health experts to provide answers to health-related questions in real-time for a fee.

In The Lancet, researchers report transplanting a "tissue-engineered airway," that is, a windpipe cultured from stem cells. (Coverage from Medpage Today is here.)

Stumped by Medical Abbreviations? Now there's a $0.99 iPhone App with 1600 commonly used terms. (Helpful for students and patients trying to understand their own medical records.)