A blog written by Ivor Kovic.....about medicine, science, internet, soap bubbles, design, imaginary friends, books, music for robots, uncreative taglines...

Wasting your life online

Are we all spending too much time on the Internet? It seams that a lot of people I know, the people whose blogs I am reading, the people who I follow on Twitter, are actually some kind of electrical beings living inside the biggest web of all. They are constantly online. Seriously, when they are […]

11 December 2008 | humor, internet, interview | 1 Comment

openECGproject

I am proud to present to you the openECGproject. Something I helped to start up and the thing that kept me away from my blog for almost two weeks. The openECGproject is essentially an online community conceived around a simple, but challenging and worthy goal – to develop an open source hardware and software solution […]

3 December 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments

Three articles about Pubmed

Three research papers about PubMed were published in open access journals in a short period of time. Two of them are written by the same authors and are dealing with the use of Pubmed among clinicians. The third one talks about two different approaches to teaching PubMed to medical students. Answers to questions posed during […]

26 October 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments

Wi-Fi for better grades

Wi-Fi Alliance conducted a survey among 501 US college students from both large and small schools regarding Wi-Fi access. Findings are very interesting: Nine out of 10 college students in the United States say Wi-Fi access is as essential to education as classrooms and computers. Nearly three in five say they wouldn’t go to a […]

11 October 2008 | internet | No Comments

Top three free iPhone health apps

More and more health iPhone applications are available each day in the App Store. Most of them are for sale, but there are some which you can download for free. Here is my current top three of free health apps. 1. Epocrates Rx Includes the drug guide, formulary information and drug interaction checker. Also offers […]

4 August 2008 | design, internet, iphone, medicine | No Comments

Digg-like open peer-review

Medicine 2.0™ is an international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring organizations. This conference, to be held in Toronto from 4th to 5th September […]

23 June 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments