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Twitter is becoming the most used real-time information resource – yet – for news , resources , fresh links , articles , media and blog posts , with the new twitter the user can add media , video and links as well . With Twitter API , many services and applications are built for many use and directed to categories of audience . One of the most important audience category is Health-related users … In this post , i will try to shade some light on some services are targeting health and medical audience users ( doctors , medical students , health-care employee and of course researchers ) …

Well quick note about twitter :

1. Twitter is FAST .. its Real-Time Service .
2. Twitter now allow sharing Media ( Video , Audio ) as resources .
3. Twitter is integrated with many services all over the web .
4. Twitter is easier now to search , mark status as bookmarked and list users into lists .

Some Twitter services and resources :

1- Organized Wisdom : http://organizedwisdom.com/Home :

Is a twitter aggregator , for health-care related posts and tweets , it aggregated the tweets from many users who are posting their tweets in certain fields .

2-Health-IT page at paper.li : http://paper.li/healthgrid/health-it :

Paper.li allow the users to build their own custom aggreator from many sources including Twitter … Health-IT is a very customized page from many selected Health-IT resources .

3-SciencePond.com http://sciencepond.com/

is scientists on twitter directory … for biology , chemistry , Biotechnology , Cognitive Science , Computer Science , Earth Science , Entomology , Environmental Science , Materials Science , Mathematics , Neuroscience , Physics , Psychology , and Space .

4 -ASKch http://ask.changehealthcare.com/ :

ASKch is a one-of-a-kind healthcare tool. Send a prescription cost or definition question via Twitter in the proper format, and receive the answer with a link to find detailed information in 60 seconds!
This service was designed to help you save money on your health related expenses and to learn about health issues. It will give you instant cost information for prescriptions as well as definitions for common health issues from change:healthcare .

5 - SickCity :

SickCity is a Realtime disease detection for your city – Using twitter to map the tweets about disease to the tweet geo address . The project is built for SickCity was built for the DIYCity Outbreak challenge. Its an Open source built with RubyOnRails . check our review about it – link .

6 – WellnessTweets.com http://www.wellnesstweets.com/ :

Is a Tiwtter Monitor to watch the best health and wellness tweets which includes ” resources and informations ” . its well categorized as it list the common health conditions , as well as the topics listed in A-Z classification making it more easy to check the category the user have interest for .

7 – justTweetIt : http://justtweetit.com/ : -

Awesome categorized directory for tweets includes Medical , Informatics and Science Category . as well as many sub-categories .

8 -Twellow : http://www.twellow.com/ :

Twitter directory built with legacy directory ideas .. as its always easy to browse the categories and the sub-categories , includes Health / Medicine / and Health-IT categories .

9 -FluTweets :http://flutweets.com/ :

Swine Flu twitter monitor , it watches many channels for Flu on twitter as well as watch the hash-tags of Flu , Swine flu , H1N1 …

10 – SwineFlu Twitter Monitor on the Map – http://www.mibazaar.com/swineflu.html :

It places Tweets which mention ” SwineFlu , H1N1 , ” on their current geographical location on the Map , using Google maps API .

11- Flu Tweets http://flu.goomedic.com/ :

Real-time Swine Flu twitter Monitor built to track the hash-tags of Swine Flu …

12 – 23 Twitter Channels for Swine Flu – http://www.goomedic.com/top-23-swine-flu-twitter-news-channels.html :
Using Twitter as Real-time News Source . Twitter users shows us how their tweets can be real-time indicator for tracking outbreaks as in Swine Flu !