Category: analysis
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Open Access Publishing – power to the people
There’s an interesting commentary in this week’s BMJ titled “Open access publishing: Too much oxygen” by Jeffrey Aronson. Aronson’s basic argument is to temper support of open access publishing. He also believes that the current model of publishing is working well pointing to the number of different journals sprouting up. Aronson argues: We need to…
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Canadian Medical Association Leadership Series: Future Practice 2005
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) released a new publication in their Leadership Series titled Future Practice 2005. The report is a series of articles directed toward physicians about the use of technology in their office and also provides some updates as to the current state of telemedicine and electronic health records in Canada. I haven’t…
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eHealth is not a panacea
There seems to be a prevailing sense that by using information and communications technology more effectively in health care, that many of the problems we face will somehow (magically) disappear. An opinion piece available on Computerworld’s website (“It’s the year for e-health records” by John Halamka) makes it seem like eHealth will be the cure…
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Conceptualizing self and others when using eHealth
I wonder if using eHealth has any affect on how health care providers perceptions on their role(s) and/or the patient-provider relationship. What about for patients? Health/health care has essentially been a face-to-face interaction for essentially hundreds (if not thousands) of years. Now, we’re introducing technologies directly into the heart of what is a very intimate…
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eHealth: A North American phenomenon?
Question: How widespread is eHealth around the world? Answer: I think that there’s considerable interest from many parts of the world. I mean, when I see the many health informatics/ehealth research centres (e.g., UK, Australia, Canada, United States, Germany) there seems to be considerable interest. But, since I was born and raised in a Canadian…
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Google Scholar: Don’t believe the hype?
When I heard about Google Scholar a few months back, I was initially excited at the prospect of being able to search academic/research references quickly, with the power and ease of using Google. Here’s the description from Google: “Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts…
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The Digital Hospital – another resource
Yahoo!Finance has a link to a series of articles on the “digital hospital” by Business Week Online. There’s a feature on some if the issues with trying to evaluate digital hospitals, which was a pretty good piece. Other features include short pieces on “Mr. Rounder”, Computers on Wheels (COWS), and mobile computing. Good reading with…
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The Digital Hospital
Here’s an interesting report from PricewaterhouseCoopers titled “Reactive to Adaptive: Transforming Hospitals with Digital Technology” (soft copy is available for free – you just need to provide some information about yourself). I haven’t had a chance to read the document in detail, but I did manage to give it a quick scan. From what I’ve…