Category: research
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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…
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Threats to validity: training and teaching in studies
I had an interesting discussion with someone the other day about threats to attributing causality in studies with “training” as part of the intervention. This discussion reminded me of another discussion I had with a few other colleagues about a paper that was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). The article is…
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Competencies for the 21st Century Health Care Worker
In the most recent issue (2005;330:637-639 – March 19) of the British Medical Journal (www.bmj.com), there’s an interesting short article titled “Preparing the 21st century global healthcare workforce” in the Learning in Practice section. Pruitt and Epping-Jordan mostly discuss skills and needs in terms of preparing health care professionals to handle the shift from acute…
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Dear Dr….
Here’s an interesting abstract from E-Health Insider Primary Care (Issue No. 7). “Four out of five US patients who are online would ideally like to ask their GPs’ advice over e-mail if it would save them a visit to the surgery, according to an online survey undertaken by Harris Interactive. Around 69% of those surveyed…
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It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to…
There’s an interesting “debate” going on the current issue (vol 365 no 9463) of The Lancet regarding the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Foundation). The editors ask if Bill Gates is “a 21st century Robin Hood”, pointing to how he has given away over $28 billion USD to date. With an endowment…
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Publication #1 – update
Ok, so it’s official. Here is the link to the article “What is eHealth (3): A systematic review of published definitions” (http://www.jmir.org/2005/1/e1/). Many thanks to my co-authors/friends/mentors (Carlos, Murray, and Alex). Okay – first one’s down, and now it’s time to focus on getting several others out there this year. It’s weird, but I thought…
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Planting seeds and making connections
Our “Monday morning discussion group” met yesterday. The plan was to discuss Ivan Illitch’s book, Medical Nemesis, but we ended-up discussing an opportunity that has opened up. One of our members is on the program committee for the eHealth2005 conference, and she asked about what services/events were geared toward students. Since there wasn’t anything officially…