MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'healia'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:29 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903196&cid=t_104806_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fmore-health-20-healia-on-facebook.html Ah, to be unburied from a mound of stuff from my recent travels and a virtual mound of e-mails!While I was still in Australia last month, the folks at health search engine Healia put up an application on Facebook to test people's knowledge of health-related issues. (You have to be a member of Facebook to use it, but c'mon, everyone's doing it! Even me.)I actually wrote a blurb about this application as part of a project on telehealth (OK, so it broadly defined) for a client in the UK. Here it is:SummaryStudies have shown that informed patients are better patients and that healthcare in the future increasingly will depend on individuals learning about and taking more control over their own health conditions. Meanwhile, social networking sites have become popular homes on the Internet for in... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903196 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:56:00 +0100 903196 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=688821&cid=t_104806_147_f&fid=35750&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FHealthCareVox%2F%7E3%2F126139435%2Fgoogle_health_search_engines_y.html Google recently responded to a letter sent last month by the European Union questioning how the company stores online search information.  Chief among the EU’s concerns was the fact that Google stores information about users’ search patterns for up to two years.  The EU said that this information can be ultimately linked “to individual users and therefore constitute personal data.”  Google has long been aware of these concerns.  In a March 2007 post on the official Google blog, two Google lawyers, Nicole Wong and Peter Fleischer said: “After talking with leading privacy stakeholders in Europe and the US, we’re pleased to be taking this important step toward protecting your privacy.  By anonymizing our server logs after 18-24 mont... HealthCareVox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=688821 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:29:44 +0100 688821 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=682196&cid=t_104806_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Ftime-for-webmd-and-google-to-panic.html This is one of the most interesting M&A bits to hit my inbox in a long time: Health-specific search engine Healia has just announced a takeover by Des Moines, Iowa-based publishing company Meredith Corp.That's right, the publisher of such titles as Fitness, Ladies' Home Journal, Family Circle, Better Homes & Gardens and Successful Farming has bought itself a healthcare search engine. I bet Wall Street didn't see that one coming, and I wonder if they're sweating over at WebMD, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.By the way, Dr. Tom Eng, Healia's president and founder, says that Healia is hiring a CTO and Web designers at company headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., and VPs for online marketing and advertising sales to work in New York, where Meredith has a large presence. Eng is keeping his job. (Sourc... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=682196 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:22:00 +0100 682196 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486427&cid=t_104806_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F102152261%2F Finding information on science and health can be daunting. Results are overwhelming if you type in a keyword that is too general. But even if you know the specific keyword phrase that will get you the most targeted results, it can be hard to sift through and determine which link will yield the best information. Search engines for specific niches are available. Two have been developed in the area of science and health - Medstory.com and Healia.com. (See my previous review of Medstory.com.) They both have their strengths and weaknesses which I have reviewed in this screencast demonstrating with a search for the serotonin receptor 2c gene.* *I’m not sure why the uploaded Google Video screencast is such poor quality and why the last millisecond got truncated when the original file is fi... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486427 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:20:46 +0100 486427