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Theme issue on "health information technology" from Health Affairs
Health Affairs, a “leading journal of health policy thought and research”, just released a theme issue on Health Information Technology. Sorry, but access to the full articles seems to be restricted to subscribers (try accessing it via an academic institution). The table of contents and abstracts are available for free. You can view the table…
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Conference Announcement – Electronic Health Information and Privacy (Ottawa – November 2005)
My apologies for being “silent” for the past few weeks, but I’ve been working through some health issues. For those who may be interested, there’s an upcoming Electronic Health Information and Privacy conference to be held on November 30, 2005 in Ottawa, Canada. The program covers practice and research, with some excellent speakers. Sounds like…
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An experience using Telehealth Ontario
Ontario’s Ministry of Health has a “free, confidential telephone service you can call to get health advice or general health information from a registered nurse” called Telehealth Ontario. I don’t know about you, but as someone who works and studies in the ehealth domain, I find the name of the service somewhat confusing. I can…
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Podcasting in Health – A look at Apple iTunes v4.9 for health podcasts
A short while ago, I wrote a post about some of the challenges of podcasting in health care. I came across a statistic about the seeming popularity of podcasting because of Apple Computer’s iTunes software (version 4.9 supports podcasting). So, I decided to check out the iTunes music store to see what I could find.…
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Blood, bytes, and being a good neighbour
Wow – it’s been almost a month since my last post. My apologies for being tardy. I’m going through a bout of writer’s block, which isn’t a good thing for a doctoral student who wants to graduate 🙂 Regardless, I’m just going to write about my recent experience with the Canadian Blood Service (CBS). This…
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Podcasting in Healthcare: Is there a future?
I’ve been following the “podcasting” phenomenon ever since I heard of the term. At this year’s Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference, Steve Jobs announced that future versions of iTunes will have features to make it easier for users to find and listen to podcasts. Basically, “podcast” or “podcasting” is a combination of the words “broadcasting”…
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Google Scholar – not ready for prime time
I came across a comprehensive review of Google Scholar available from the Thomson Gale Publishing group. As you know, Google Scholar is a dedicated search tool aimed at “academics” to search information regarding journal articles, reports, and other “scientific” literature. In a previous post (Google Scholar: Don’t believe the hype?), I shared some of my…
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Case report: A paperless hospital
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…
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