Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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eHealth 2005 Conference – thoughts from day 2
Today proved to be an interesting day at the e-Health 2005 Conference as it was both better and worse than day 1. Plenary Session 2: Walking the talk – learning from the doers This session was moderated by Dr. Alex Jadad and featured three speakers representing some of the work going on in the United…
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e-Health 2005 Conference – thoughts from day 1
Here are my observations from day 1 of the e-Health 2005 conference. I would have posted more often during the day, but wireless Internet connections were not provided as part of the conference. I can’t believe that at an eHealth conference, Internet access is not provided for free – access was available for about $15…
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Patient blogs & the Electronic Health Record
In a previous post, I wondered about the utility of turning electronic health records into blogs, owned and maintained by the patient with health care providers providing additional contributions. It wasn’t a completely thought out idea, but I was just brainstorming a bit. iHealthbeat.org reported on how High Point Regional Health System in North Carolina…
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Telemedicine in the news
Here’s an article reporting on how technologies can be used to connect patients and physicians over great distances (i.e., telemedicine). The article is in Today’s Globe and Mail, titled “Hi-tech checkups byte into travel“. What I find interesting is how the technology is portrayed in an entirely positive light. It’s as if the technology can…
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Reference manager, electronic databases, and other thoughts from a systematic review
Here are some thoughts as I work on my systematic review. Electronic Databases I’ve been searching Medline and EMBASE and I have as good a search strategy that I’ll get. Since I’m mostly looking for theory-type papers, I think I’m going to get a considerable amount of “noise” – okay, I can deal with that.…
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IBM to build computer models of health system
Now here’s an interesting report that I came across today. It’s titled “IBM developing test system to share health data” available from the Computerworld.com site. The article reports how IBM has decided to develop a “test” system that will allow for simulations of health encounters to see what types of information are to be shared…
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The story of eHealth
Okay, so I’ve been thinking about what the “story” behind eHealth is, and I think I’ve finally found an image that captures it. As you can see, there’s a gentleman seemingly receiving a hug from someone emerging from the computer screen. I think that in many ways, we like to think that the technologies we…
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"Give it away, give it away, give it away now"
Sure, the title of this post is from a Red Hot Chili Peppers song, but it’s an interesting one. Today’s Globe and Mail had an article reporting on how much information is available for free on newspaper websites (“How much should newspapers give away?“). The content wasn’t that interesting or surprising in and of itself,…
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