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  • Learning from the past and living with legacy systems

    Over the past eight years that I’ve been in the “real world”, I’ve had opportunities to work at various parts of the health care system from promoting healthy behaviours to children of family violence, preparing a small community hospital implement a new electronic records system, developing a quality improvement program and conducting business process re-engineering…

  • Should patients be worried about the security of their health information?

    Should people be worried about the security of their health information? In the past, I used to believe that perhaps the issues of security and privacy (an issue that is related to but NOT identical to security) were overblown. I would go so far as to suggest that those with vested interests used these two…

  • Disruptive Technologies in Health Care: A summary

    My apologies for not getting to this post sooner, but this past year has been … eventful. Here is my list of disruptive technologies that could be used in to improve and change health care. I have included links to the entries highlighting each technology – no need to rehash what’s already been written. Disruptive…

  • Upcoming Conference: Games for Health 2006 – Sept. 28-29, 2006

    Here’s an announcement for an exciting upcoming conference: Games for Health 2006 Third Annual Conference Covering Intersection of Games, Health and Healthcare – September 28-29, 2006 – Baltimore. Here’s a description of the goal of the conference: Summarizing the importance of the event, Ben Sawyer said, “Slowly but surely the last year has seen a…

  • To PhD or not Phd?

    I’ve been asked on several occasions about studying ehealth/health informatics at the graduate level (i.e., masters or doctoral/PhD degrees). Some seem to be interested in advancing their own knowledge so that they can use their new found knowledge and skills to further their career in the workplace. For those interested in pursuing a doctoral degree…

  • A look at the "dark side" of ehealth

    A look at the “dark side” of ehealth In his book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Neil Postman writes about the unconscious effects of television in society. He later generalizes that technologies inherently favour certain types of interaction, thinking, conceptualization, and communication. For example, the written word (i.e.,…

  • Podcasting in Healthcare – Revisited 2006

    Almost a year ago, I posted an entry on the topic of podcasting in health care (Podcasting in Healthcare – Is there a future?) and then followed it up with a quick search of podcasts available on Apple’s iTunes music store (Podcasting in Health – A look at Apple iTunes v4.9 for health podcasts). I…

  • Google Health – A sign of things to come?

    An interesting little post on Arstechnica.com reports about the possibility of a new service from Google focused on health. This new service is to be called “Google Health” in line with Googles naming convention for services (e.g., Google Maps, Google Scholar, etc). What I find interesting about this speculative posting is the increasing interest from…