Category: research

Here’s an interesting article/case study from Computerworld.com titled “The paperless hospital – really!“. The article is a profile of Baptist Medical Centre South hospital and how it managed to succeed when others (i.e., Cedar-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles). My take home message after reading this article was that technology is not the problem (nor…

Here’s an online resource that I forgot to write about. This report is titled “Wide Open: Open source methods and their future potential“. It’s freely available in electronic format. I haven’t read the entire report in detail, but here’s the gist. The authors believe that “open source” methods, which have been successful in the software…

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…

I’m in the midst of working on (another) systematic review for my dissertation. For this review, I am interested in identify “theory-type” papers in the biomedical literature. Guess what? It’s really difficult. At first, I thought that I wasn’t proficient at searching the biomedical literature (mostly Medline and Embase), so I contacted a librarian to…

Here’s an interesting article from the E-Health Insider, titled “Carry your medical records on a USB drive” reporting about the Medinfo Chip. Basically, it’s a copy of your medical record available on a USB key that you can make available to your physician. A generic version of your medical record is available for emergency situations.…