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Harnessing information power for your patients and your practice. Part 2 of 2.

Special title for this installment: Information power forming the future of neurology and medicine.

Hear these reports:

Elsevier’s WiserWiki Allows Physicians To Update Evidence-Based Medical Information With Experience-Based Practice Insights: WiserWiki potentially creates a virtual, living, continually updated medical manual – possibly much more useful and ‘in the now’ – than a periodically updated, edition-based textbook (which only a handful of ‘experts’ edit)!

Illumin8 research tool to help researchers answer complex R&D questions faster and more accurately: The first web-based research tool that integrates ‘natural language search technology’ with the large amounts of content from Elsevier’s scientific articles and web sources.

Education in the third dimension: Enactive learning - ‘learning by doing’ - may be poised for a big comeback because now, thanks to the large, active European Union-funded research network called Enactive.

Med Schools Adjusting to Millennial Students: Medical educators are looking into a variety of different ideas on how to best teach this new tech-savvy, team-oriented generation. We predict that collaborative approaches - including wiki technology - and audio and video podcasting, and the use of iTunes U - will be important parts of their modern teaching approaches!

Thoughts on the ‘Global Brain’: Medical ideas here on Earth (thanks to information technology) are now well interconnected by a web of ‘synapses’ - the billions of nodes of the world wide web. It’s like a ‘global brain.’ Stored information on blogs and wikis - like WiserWiki – are analogous to stored memory in the brain’s synapses. And podcasting (‘audioblogging’) is like the ‘voice’ for the global brain!

Next week’s show will be the first of a new series of STAT special-topic installments: Rife with Strife – uncertainties and controversies in neurology and medicine. The focus will be on the cerebral vascular disorders and stroke.

Flow Productions will be producing additional lines of podcasts based on cutting medical news and information. Click for demos: Audio magazine format and video (’enhanced podcast’). If you are interested in sponsoring one of the shows please contact info@flowproductions.org.