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Recap of eAJKD’s coverage of the Medicine 2.0 (2013) conference

September 30, 2013 // 0 Comments

Check out all of the coverage of this year’s Medicine 2.0 conference by eAJKD’s Joel Topf on Twitter and below: Medicine 2.0 (2013): Introduction Why Medicine 2.0 Susan Michie, the science of changing behavior Twitter: listening to a million [read more...]

Medicine 2.0 Closing Keynote: Emerging technologies for mobile health

September 30, 2013 // 1 Comment

Richard R Fletcher from the MIT Media Lab gave a fascinating, if not a bit creepy, closing keynote. His topic was sensor technologies, both those that exist and those that are emerging and how they could apply to mobile health. Dr Fletcher started [read more...]

Medicine 2.0 (2013): Technology for the elderly

September 29, 2013 // 1 Comment

I went to a session on Elderly Patients. I thought this was an interesting session as technology is usually associated with young people, and it is easy to overlook how these technologies can change healthcare in the aged. This breakout session [read more...]

My very short time on stage at Med 2.0

September 26, 2013 // 1 Comment

The editors at iMedical App asked me to participate on their panel discussion. The title of the panel was mHealth and Quality and Safety of Apps. I was one of five speakers that they shoehorned into an hour. I was given 8 minutes. I spoke about what [read more...]

Twitter: listening to a million conversations at once

September 26, 2013 // 1 Comment

After the keynote the conference broke up into smaller sessions. I went to the Blogs, Microblogs and Twitter session which should have just been called Twitter because all three research projects presented were focused solely on twitter. Apparently [read more...]

Susan Michie, the science of changing behavior

September 26, 2013 // 2 Comments

The mobile phone has uniquely found a role in improving the healthcare of the rich and the poor. #Med2 — Dr. Matt Sparks (@eAJKD) September 23, 2013 The opening keynote was by Susan Michie: Designing Digital Interventions: a health [read more...]

Why Medicine 2.0

September 26, 2013 // 1 Comment

At #Med2 they tell the audience to turn on, rather than switch off your mobile phone. — AJKD Blog (@AJKDblog) September 23, 2013 Why should a blog sponsored by a nephrology journal care about the Med 2.0 Conference? Med 2.0 is a conference [read more...]

Medicine 2.0 (2013)

September 25, 2013 // 1 Comment

eAJKD’s Dr. Joel Topf live tweeted this year’s Medicine 2.0, the 6th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, Internet/Web 2.0, which took place in London, UK, from September 23-24. In case you missed it, we’ve selected some of Dr. [read more...]

Recap of eAJKD’s coverage of the Medicine 2.0 (2012) conference

September 20, 2012 // 0 Comments

Check out all of the coverage of this year’s Medicine 2.0 conference by eAJKD’s Joel Topf below: The Opening YouTube and Medical Education Bertalan Mesko’s concept on social media and the patient-physician relationship Learning Styles Web [read more...]

Medicine 2.0 (2012): Run-keeper Revolution

September 19, 2012 // 0 Comments

A great session at Medicine 2.0 was Ted Vickey’s presentation, Fitness there is an App for That. Vickey is a Penn State grad who worked in the White House under three presidents (Bush, Clinton, Bush) in the White House Athletic Center. He [read more...]