Working in conjunction with the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Imperial College London (ICL) has created a virtual hospital in the 3D virtual world of Second Life and a series of machinima documentary films that describe what healthcare of the future could look like. The design of the virtual hospital  is based on the principles and recommendations outlined in the Healthcare for London: A Framework for Action

Blog Post About Second Health

Second Health

Source : Maged Boulos

NHS Choices sees the NHS starting to dip their toe tentatively into the wonderful world of web 2.0. How I missed the launch during the summer I don’t know but it looks adequate on a quick glance, although I was hoping for a lot more interactively – perhaps this will come in due course. The site is a bit of a dog’s dinner in terms of design and layout and there needs to be a lot more work done on links supporting a subject (for example, a search on gangrene allows you to look for useful links which include condom essential wear, back pain and abortion !) In terms of recording patient journeys and problems I’m also not sure how well this will cope in the age of spin with the trip advisor model once people start communicating their real views of care and cleanliness in hospitals and elsewhere.

NHS Choices Summary (Introductory Letter)

About NHS Choices

Source : Maged Boulos

A really interesting trip to the University of Plymouth yesterday to talk with Steve Wheeler (Faculty of Education) and Maged Boulos (Faculty of Health & Social Work) about what they were up to in Second Life and elsewhere in the world of Web 2.0. I’ve come back with a big list of reading and links (a sample of which is below…)

Mashing, Burning, Mixing and the Destructive Creativity of Web 2.0: Applications for Medical Education

Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education

Steve’s Blog : Learning With ‘e’s

Maged’s Blog : Web 2.0 and the 3D Web (Virtual Worlds and Second Life)

BBC report on the Immersive Virtual Environments Laboratory at University College London, where researchers are looking at how to make people engage with characters inside a virtual environment, and exploring how virtual reality could be used to help train people to cope with real world difficultie

Source : Kevin Wright (Jiscmail)

Latest visitor stats……

Visits to first floor HSC Gallery (as at 22/10) – 50
Visits to HSC Ground Floor (as at 22/10) – 36

A health version of The Machine is Us/ing Us…..

Source : Informaticopia

e-Health meets social software from Microsoft. With HealthVault, all of your health information is in one place that you control…..

Source : OLWeekly

An interesting video summarizing some important characteristics of students today including how they learn and what they need to learn.

Source : OLWeekly

Following on from coloured balls and exploding paint the third in the sequence of sony ads tops the Guardian Video Viral Chart – a great example of an inspirational idea with good choice of music from the stones too.

My second article on the Cohehre Virtual Europe project has now been published. This is an innovative and exciting 3 year virtual learning project set within a European Context, with the project running from June 2006 – May 2009.

On The Road To Virtual Europe
Published in
Proceedings of ECEL 2007
The 6th European Conference on e-Learning
ISBN: 978-1-905305-57-5 cd

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