Archive for May, 2008
New Media Medicine - a great site for medics in need of support
I must be very vague, as I have only just come across this great forum for medics. New Media Medicine is aimed at medics and medical students and offers great forums on all topics. Particularly good are the forums dedicated to different medical schools, including specific areas for UK, US, Canada, Australia, New [...]
Mac tools for oncologists - a basic Chemo dose calculator
One of the complicated tasks o oncologists is to calculate chemotherapy doses. A Japanese oncologist, Yasunari Miyagi has made his own calculator available.
It calculates body surface area and body mass index from entered variables and calculates a chemo dose according to your preferred dose/m2 and AUC. It includes a calculator for carboplatin dosage, [...]
CardioViz3D and MIPS: Two programs to manipulate radiology images
Apple.com is featuring CardioViz3D, which is a cardiac imaging viewer, supporting a variety of image formats and mesh files.
The author is Asclepios and they have a number of other high-level medical software projects. I have already written about MRINA. They also have MIPS and CardioViz3D.
If you work with computer imaging, they would be worth [...]
Could Google Health be the future of patient record sharing?
Google Health is an online repository for your health information. It is a rival to other services that already exist, but it is Google, so it may become all-powerful. This sort of service is probably the answer to the age-old question of patients carrying a smart card with their health-information on it. [...]
Free support on using photoshop (Download a PDF of a Photoshop manual)
Many doctors are now using digital cameras to support their clinical and research work. I mainly use Photoshop to manipulate my images, but I am limited by my skill level. Some of the stuff in that program is just not that intuitive. I bought a manual from a publishing friend a [...]