Month: April 2005
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Free thinking Fridays
I just returned from one of my regular meetings of the “Monday Morning group” (we now meet on Fridays). Today’s discussion was tentatively about Michel Foucault, using Discipline and Punish as the text. We weren’t able to get into a real in-depth discussion because the group had difficulty understanding the text. Why is it that…
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Welcome to the WiFi world – is this a good thing?
It seems like WiFi (wireless fidelity or wireless networking) is all the rage at the moment, with Wifi hotspots popping up everywhere. I can see how having easily accessible access to the Internet can be a good thing. But, is it so good when hospitals jump into the foray? Here’s an article that I found…
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Health information professionals – do we need them?
Events in the past few days have made me re-think some of my ideas about access to information, particularly health information. Just because the Internet and other sources provide access to information, is this enough? For example, in my PhD work, I’m constantly searching for information. As a result, I’m at an advantage when compared…
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Offline because of computer woes
I’ll be offline for at least a day because my primary computer has become very unstable. Apparently, my Sharp laptop doesn’t like some of the software I installed recently. I wonder if other systems have this issue. As I was telling someone today, I’d rather just use technology that’s reliable and works.
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Thoughts for a rainy Wednesday
I’m experiencing “bad” network traffic here at the Centre today. It’s raining outside, and I just got back from a presentation by Anna Gagliardi. Anna was doing a dry-run of her dissertation defence on June 22, 2005. Her topic was “Patient and professional perspectives on performance measurement in oncology”. I won’t divulge the details of…
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Paper: Understanding and preventing the demise of clinical information system
I came across an interesting article by Lapointe and Rivard (2005) titled “Clinical Information Systems: Understanding and Preventing Their Premature Demise“. The article is an analysis of three case studies using interviews and identifying themes. The authors identified a number of different factors, but ultimately focused on three: Understanding the organizational characteristics of hospitals; Understand…
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Signs of a coming Linux/Apple world?
Here’s an interesting article that I came across on Computerworld.com reporting on the increase in use of Apple computers in the life sciences. I know that in my particular “lab” (i.e., The Centre for Global eHealth Innovation), most people seem to be moving away from Microsoft Windows machines and to either Apple’s Mac or to…
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Upcoming Presentation @ eHealth Conference 2005 Student Symposium
I just learned that I’ll be presenting at this year’s Student Symposium at the eHealth 2005 Conference. I’ll be speaking during the evening session on Sunday May 1st, 2005. My talk will be about the definition of eHealth (shameless self plug here) and my “vision” for the future of eHealth. I’ll post my presentation file…