I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Medical Mashups

From UBC Google Scholar Blog:
Think of mashups as making connections where none existed before. Content created anew, using disparate data from RSS feeds, public databases, or open data sources. In searching, ‘mash-ups’ (see wikipedia) are websites that pull content from disparate sources on a single page. Here's a simple example: Helicobacter pylori.
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