This online app could be use for students creating their own learning projects or for staff to create course notes and resources for their students.

Revolution Health is a new startup from Steve Case, former CEO of America Online and chairman of AOL Time Warner.

The website is an amalgamation of several startups purchased by Case and aims to offer an information portal about healthcare with medical tools and a database of doctors and clinics which users can rate.

Visiting the site, the main emphasis seems to be on the ability to rate your own physician. It also offers users blogs, forums and other ways of posting their opinions about health problems and health delivery.

The site has information from several insitutions including the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and Harvard.

The site is only just launched so the effects of the social networking and user generated content has not kicked in yet. It will be interesting to see whether the site provides professional evidenced based advice on health issues or just ends up being a repository of anecdotal evidence generated from it’s users.

I’ve just been updating Doctors’ Gadgets.com. The site has news and discussion about PDAs, EMR and other gadgets that doctors use.

It’s also the host to the video tutorials that accompany the RSM Press book, “The Doctors’ PDA and Smartphone Handbook“.

Dr. Karim Keshavjee from McMaster University has written an article entitled ‘Oh no! Half of all current EMRs Fail’.

PDF of Full Article

Via Canadian EMR.

Article in ‘For the Record‘ that explains in simple terms what HL7 is and how it’s used.

Via NeoTool

Video of a presentation on Inveneo’s work on telehealth in Uganda.

Link from Tech ‘n’ Health Blog

Interview with Brazilian TV by Nicholas Negroponte about the OLPC. He mentions that microsoft are working on a SD card for it that will allow it to run windows. Also talks about Intel’s new Eduwise low-cost laptop.

Here’s a demo of a large multi-touch screen. This technology seems to be getting a lot of press at the moment - probably due to the fact that the new Apple iPhone uses a multi-touch screen. (more…)

Geni is a new ‘Web 2.0′ start-up company with a mission to build a complete family tree for humanity.

One particularly neat aspect of the site is that you can immediately start entering your information from the moment you arrive at the site. No signing up, checking emails, logging in, etc. Just visit the url and start entering information.

It’s also viral. You add the email addresses of your family members and they can access your tree and start adding information. Eventually, the trees start to merge and a larger family tree is created.

Could this have implications for medicine? - could we help track hereditary diseases through this kind of system?

Geni have a nice overview of their service on their blog.