IBM Virtual Healthcare Island : a video

Interactive environment displays IBM’s vision for consumer-driven healthcare

Medicine 2.0 : a new reference

Aaaaahh, Scienceroll ! Thanks Bertalan “Berci Dryke” Mesko for his work.

It’s a new keystone of the medicine 2.0.
With a lot of Second Life inside.
And I love to see me in this great slideshow (on the slide 12 in the classroom).

SLHealthy wiki

By Patricia Anderson.
Presented at SLang Health event on February 9, 2008.

Chatlog available at http://slhealthy.wetpaint.com/

iVAS-International Virtual Association of Surgeons

iVAS is a group of surgeons and scientists who want to change the way scientific communications are currently conducted. They will organise conferences entirely within the virtual world of Second Life. This lowers the cost of attending, negates the need to travel and creates novel surgical research networks across the world.

The inaugural iVAS conference will occur on the 22 April 2008.

 SLURL 

The website of this event

World AIDS Day : AIDES campaign

AIDES : http://www.aides.org/
It’s AIDS, the need to exclude, not seropositive people.

When SL and mirror worlds converge…

Web GIS in practice V: 3-D interactive and real-time mapping in Second Life
Maged N Kamel Boulos, David Burden
International Journal of Health Geographics 2007, 6:51 (27 November 2007)
[Provisional PDF]

Abstract :
This paper describes technologies from Daden Limited for geographically mapping and accessing live news stories/feeds, as well as other real-time, real-world data feeds (e.g., Google Earth KML feeds and GeoRSS feeds) in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life, by plotting and updating the corresponding Earth location points on a globe or some other suitable form (in-world), and further linking those points to relevant information and resources. This approach enables users to visualise, interact with, and even walk or fly through, the plotted data in 3-D. Users can also do the reverse: put pins on a map in the virtual world, and then view the data points on the Web in Google Maps or Google Earth. The technologies presented thus serve as a bridge between mirror worlds like Google Earth and virtual worlds like Second Life. We explore the geo-data display potential of virtual worlds and their likely convergence with mirror worlds in the context of the future 3-D Internet or Metaverse, and reflect on the potential of such technologies and their future possibilities, e.g., their use to develop emergency/public health virtual situation rooms to effectively manage emergencies and disasters in real time. The paper also covers some of the issues associated with these technologies, namely user interface accessibility and individual privacy.

Source : http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/6/1/51

World AIDS Day 2007 at HealthInfo Island

About the World AIDS day:

The official sites :
http://www.worldaidsday.org & http://www.worldaidscampaign.info

The events

WorldMapper : The shape of global causes of death

1. HIV Prevalence map
2. HIV/AIDS Deaths map
   
3. Condom Use by Men map
4. Condom Use by Women map
   
5. STDs Excluding HIV Deaths map
   

In Second Life :

The Healthinfo Island Blog : Here is the month before…

The HIV/AIDS information resources

A lot of information about this event of global importance on HealthInfo Island:

SLURL: Healthinfo Island (79, 111, 23)

• Special displays and newsfeeds on HIV/AIDS
• AIDS Walk with information about HIV/AIDS Support Groups in SL
• Podcasts on AIDS by the CDC in the Podcast Globe
• Quality information resources, including search tools
• All information is available all day and will stay for at least a week.

Workshop : “Looking for Health: Finding Quality HIV/AIDS Information“
by Carolina Keats, 09.00 AM SL Time

• See what others are doing in SL on HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health
• Guided tour around the Island
• Live coverage of Teen Grid Event

 

Organised by the HealthInfo Island Groups:

• Consumer Health Library,
• SL Medical Library,
• Heron Sanctuary & Accessibility Center, and
• the University of Plymouth Sexual Health SIM

Source

Médecine & web 2.0 : the french wiki about Medicine 2.0

http://medecine.2.0.free.fr

 

SLHealthy [ http://slhealthy.wetpaint.com ], the international wiki,
gathers information about consumer health locations and groups in Second Life.

Here is a new wiki, a french one “référençant les initiatives en langue française touchant aux nouveaux outils et services du Web (regroupés sous l’appellation Web 2.0) dans le domaine médical” …. about medicine 2.0.

And this wiki include a page on Second Life (it’s in french of course) :
http://medecine.2.0.free.fr/doku.php/second_life

eHealth / Web 2.0 & I3D

A Brief History of Medicine (Health 2.0)

http://www.scribemedia.org/2007/09/20/health-20-conference/