Hans Oh's Blog

Author: Hans

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Publication Update – What is eHealth?

    Great news. My article (Oh, Rizo, Enkin, Jadad – What is eHealth (3): A Systematic Review of Published Definitions) is now indexed on PubMed/Medline. You can see the page here. Okay, now for my second update. To my surprise, another paper on the same topic was published just a month after mine in the Journal…

  • The allure of Apple, and its implications to eHealth

    I spent a few hours yesterday backing up some data from my notebook to an external hard-disk. Since I only have USB1.1, the transfer was painfully slow. So, I visited my local computer store and bought a USB2.0 PCMCIA (*see note below) card in hopes that the faster transfer rate will speed things up. After…