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Video of My Mobile Monday Talk is Online

Organizers have published the video of my talk from recently held Mobile Monday Amsterdam event titled Mobile Health. Be sure to watch it and let me know what you think.

Mobile Monday Amsterdam now has their own YouTube channel, so you can watch all those brilliant talks from their previous and future events.

3 February 2010 | design, internet, iphone, medicine | 8 Comments

Haiti still needs help

Help Haiti by supporting the International Medical Corps (IMC), a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization, founded by volunteer doctors and nurses and dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering.
There are still thousands of patients seeking treatment of which approximately 80% are in need of surgery and are running out of time – especially with the [...]

20 January 2010 | medicine | 1 Comment

Informed Pocket Guides for the iPhone

I discovered Informed Pocket Guides almost two years ago and have been a huge fan ever since. The first product I got was the Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide. I believe the fact that I take extra care this little/big guide is always in my bag when I go to work, says it all. [...]

27 December 2009 | design, internet, iphone, medicine | 3 Comments

Clinical Trials app: video review and giveaway

Recently Kat Sanders presented Clinical Trials app for iPhone in a guest post on my blog. Now I am bringing you a video review of this great app.
But that’s not all! Geoffrey Young of StopWatch Media, makers of Clinical Trials app, was kind enough to offer us 4 promo codes which you can use [...]

18 May 2009 | internet, iphone, medicine, science | No Comments

Health Blogs Observatory

You should know by now that every time my posts are slower, I am creating something in the dark corner of my room . This was the case when I introduced the OpenECGproject, and it is the case now, when I am introducing the Health Blogs Observatory.
Health Blogs Observatory is an online research [...]

31 January 2009 | internet, medicine, science | 5 Comments

Dr. Awesome, Microsurgeon M.D.

This is a game for the iPhone for which I wanted to do a video review, but I see that others have already done it, so I will just embed their video.
Here is a description of this game:
Prepare to go micro! You are Dr. Awesome, the world’s most popular microsurgeon. A deadly strain of [...]

15 December 2008 | humor, iphone, medicine | 1 Comment