Author: Hans
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Reference manager, electronic databases, and other thoughts from a systematic review
Here are some thoughts as I work on my systematic review. Electronic Databases I’ve been searching Medline and EMBASE and I have as good a search strategy that I’ll get. Since I’m mostly looking for theory-type papers, I think I’m going to get a considerable amount of “noise” – okay, I can deal with that.…
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IBM to build computer models of health system
Now here’s an interesting report that I came across today. It’s titled “IBM developing test system to share health data” available from the Computerworld.com site. The article reports how IBM has decided to develop a “test” system that will allow for simulations of health encounters to see what types of information are to be shared…
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The story of eHealth
Okay, so I’ve been thinking about what the “story” behind eHealth is, and I think I’ve finally found an image that captures it. As you can see, there’s a gentleman seemingly receiving a hug from someone emerging from the computer screen. I think that in many ways, we like to think that the technologies we…
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"Give it away, give it away, give it away now"
Sure, the title of this post is from a Red Hot Chili Peppers song, but it’s an interesting one. Today’s Globe and Mail had an article reporting on how much information is available for free on newspaper websites (“How much should newspapers give away?“). The content wasn’t that interesting or surprising in and of itself,…
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Who uses eHealth?
Here’s an interesting article that just came out describing the people who use eHealth, titled “Survey details data on those using eHealth“. Some quick findings: Those aged 35-54 years are the most likely to use ehealth; Of those surveyed, 74% of the respondents had searched for health information on the Internet; WebMD is the most…
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Blogs for the medical field?
I came across this interesting article from BusinessweekOnline titled “Blogs will change your business“. The article was a description of the blog phenomenon and how it may impact businesses. While the examples were interesting to illustrate how the power of information is changing the dynamic between companies and customers, I got to thinking about the…
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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…