Fascinating video made in 1972 by the creators of the ARPAnet. The engineers who invented the precursor to the internet outline why the internet was required and the problems it was solving.

I have a long commute at the moment so I’ve been investigating putting some Podcasts on my SPV M5000 pocket pc phone.

I’ve mostly been subscribing to tech podcasts but I also found some medical ones which might be of use to other doctors. Medical Podcasting seems to be in it’s infancy at the moment but I think it’s a great way of reaching people. The Washington Post claims there are close to 2000 medical podcasts out there. Perhaps I’ll start a Medical Informatics podcast… Here’s the list of medical podcasts I’ve found from various sources (most of these come from the document at The Krafty Librarian:

General Medicine:

Access Medicine: http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/podcast/acm/

AHRQ Healthcare 411: http://www.healthcare411.org/

ABC’s Health Report: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/default.htm

Ivanhoe’s Medical Breakthroughs: http://www.ivanhoe.com/about/p_podcasts.cfm

MedicineNet.com: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=47403

Another Night Shift: http://www.anothernightshift.com/?cat=2

CME Podcasting: http://www.cmepodcasting.com/

Clinical Podcast: http://www.clinicalpodcast.com/

Audio Medica: http://www.audiomedica.org/

Dr Rubin: http://www.drrubin.com/

Cleveland Clinic Health Edge: http://www.clevelandclinic.org/healthedge/

JAMA: http://jama.ama-assn.org/misc/audiocommentary.dtl

Johns Hopkins Podcasts: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/mediaII/Podcasts.html

MediPodcast: http://www.drsuarez.net/podcasting.html

MedKast: http://medkast.libsyn.com/

The Naked Scientists: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/Shows/streaming_media.htm

The NEJM: http://content.nejm.org/misc/podcast.shtml

OU Medical Center - Health Matters: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OUMedicalCenter-HealthMatters

Sound Medicine: http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/index.php4

UCTV Health and Medicine: http://www.uctv.tv/podcasts/subscriptions.asp?feed=health

The Medical Center Hour: http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/him/currentmch.cfm

Audio Lectures from UMED: http://umed.med.utah.edu/ms1/aud_lec.cfm

Science Journals:

Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index.html

Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/about/podcast.dtl

Scientific American: http://www.sciam.com/podcast/

Anesthesiology:

Anesthesiology Clinics of North America: http://www.anesthesiology.theclinics.com/content/mp3

Rheumatology:

Athritis Central: http://www.arthritiscentral.com/index.php?page=audio.php

Rheumatology Radio: http://rheumatologyradio.blogspot.com/

Cardiology:This Week in Cardiology: http://www.clinicaltrialresults.org/

ACC Conversations: http://conversations.acc.org/podcast.asp

AHA Podcast: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3037153

Cardiovascular Multimedia Information Network: http://www.cvmd.org/index.php

Critical Care Medicine:

Society of Critical Care Medicine: http://www.sccm.org/SCCM/Publications/iCritical+Care/

Dentristy:

DentalCast: http://www.dentalcast.net/

Dermatology:

Dermatology Weekly Update: http://www.dermatologyweeklyupdate.com/

Emergency Medicine:

EMS Live: http://www.emslive.com/

The University of Iowa Department of Emergency Medicine: http://haven.its.uiowa.edu/content/com/emerg_med/podcast.xml

Endocrinology

Diabetic Feed: http://diabeticfeed.blogspot.com/

Gastroenterology:

DAVE Project: http://www.daveproject.org/

Audio Digest: http://www.audio-digest.org/

Microbiology:

MicrobeWorld Radio: http://www.microbeworld.org/MWRpodcast.htm

Medical Informatics:

Sound Practice: http://soundpractice.net/

EMR Cast: http://www.emrcast.com/EMRCast%20Podcast/EMRCast%20Main/EMRCast%20Main.html

Neurology:

STAT! The Podcast of Clinical Neurology News: http://www.medicalnewspodcast.com/stat.html

Oncology:

Arizona Cancer Center: http://azcc.arizona.edu/healthcast/

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Podcasts (Blood CancerCAST): http://www.leukemia.org/all_page?item_id=395450

Cancer Cast: http://cancercast.com/

Cancer News in Context and Prevention Radio: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cancer/hccp/podcasts/index.htm

Ophthalmology:

As seen from here: http://www.asseenfromhere.com/

Pediatrics:

Pediatrics Pedcasts: http://www.peds.arizona.edu/residency/podcast.asp

Pharmacology:

ASHP Advantage: http://www.ashpadvantage.com/podcasts/

FDA Patient Safety News: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/psn/index.cfm

Radiology:

CTisus Vodcasts and Podcasts: http://www.ctisus.com/

Johns Hopkins Radiology Teaching Podcast: http://www.rad.jhmi.edu/residents/podcasts.htm

Sources: Arizona Health Sciences Library, GooMedic.com, Krafty Librarian, Podcast Directory: Medical, Clinical Cases and Images, The Health Tech Blog.

The HITSphere is a network of premium weblogs that write content about the healthcare, medical, and clinical informatics and information technology (IT) industry. Combined, these sites reach a large readership of influential healthcare technology professionals.

Check it out here: http://www.hitsphere.com/

A new Digg style website specifically for healthcare technology folks like me! One to add to the bookmarks:

http://www.hitsmit.com/

I’ve been putting some of the Health Informatics course material into Blackboard today. Although it’s a bit unintuitive to get around, you can add content pretty easily and add tests and quizzes to the end of sections to reinforce learning objectives.

I did notice that on the Blackboard homepage, they seem to have patented concept of the LMS (learning management system). Read the press release here: http://www.blackboard.com/company/press/release.aspx?id=887622. This announcement seeems to have been taken rather badly by various internet pundits. Check out the reaction at slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1217219. A number of concerns are raised including what will happen to open source LMSs like Moodle.