Hans Oh's Blog

Month: June 2007

  • JMIR a top health services and informatics journal

    For those interested in publishing their work, you should consider the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). JMIR is now the #2 medical informatics journal based on the ISI/SCI impact factor ratings, with a rating of 2.9. The “impact factor rating” is a statistical measure of how frequently articles from a specific journal are referenced…

  • The Imposter Phenomenon

    I attended a fascinating presentation earlier this week. The presentation was about the “imposter phenomenon” by Diane Zorn (PhD candidate at York University). The Imposter Phenomenon is when high achievers (e.g., graduate students, professors, lawyers, physicians, etc) are “plagued by the fear that they are not as capable or intelligent as others think they are,…

  • Could ehealth raise public awareness of clinical conditions?

    I came accross an interesting article published in BMC Medicine titled “Do citizens have minimum medical knowledge? A survey”. The authors found a “consistent and dramatic lack of knowledge in the general public about the typical signs and risk factors of relevant clinical conditions”. What surprised me was that this finding seemed to apply to…

  • Patients want more performance information available online. Where do we go from here?

    Came across an interesting little blurb reporting on a survey. In the the survey conducted in the UK, nearly 80% of patients want “more information on how their NHS hospital performs available on the internet”. Nothing too shocking, right? My first thought was to question whether or not this matters. From my personal experience working…