Education, Teaching, and Quality Improvement

ACCP has just launched an additional version of the ACCP-SEEK app, now with CME! Read on to find out more, and see a video demo.

Got an iPhone but still haven't mastered some of the little things like finding your most recently used apps, or organizing apps into folders? This NY Times video will show you how, with easy to remember mnemonics.

Visual search technology just gets a legit app that does real-time translation. Word Lens allows you to hold your camera up over text and automatically translates it. Read on to find out more, and check out this cool demonstration video.

Lata Casturi, RPSGT, a senior sleep technologist at the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) Sleep Center and an Allied Health NetWork member, has been instrumental in guiding an extraordinary community service project that has brought a much needed awareness to the issue of healthy sleep habits for teenagers.

Augmented reality (AR) smartphone apps are gaining use and popularity. They're great for finding an excellent nearby pizza joint, competitive prices for products, real estate listing, and getting around an unfamiliar city or part of town. Will medicine be the next augmented reality frontier? Check out some of these videos showing how AR works.

How can one blog post possibly bring together non-for-profit medical societies, education, social media, Clay Shirky, cognitive surplus, and lolcats? Read on to find out.

As the more healthcare information is electronically captured, tracked, disseminated, and documented, how is it being shared, and by whom?

The rules, tools, and tenets of information seeking, creation, and sharing are constantly evolving, and the use of tools that provide ways to manage information are changing rapidly due to a number of factors, including new tools, improvements in existing tools, launch of new devices like the iPad, and the incredible shift to mobile devices and apps, as opposed to traditional desktop browser. Read on for some links to articles, blogs, and info on these trends.

Digital strategist Heidi Allen points out a great Canadian wiki that keeps an up-to-date list of all sorts of online resources for physicians. Bookmark this site, you'll refer to it often!

Sometimes it's good just to point out good stuff that you might be interested in reading. Here's a list of links to some recent articles from various sources. Enjoy! For more stuff like this, join me on Twitter.