Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Who uses eHealth?
Here’s an interesting article that just came out describing the people who use eHealth, titled “Survey details data on those using eHealth“. Some quick findings: Those aged 35-54 years are the most likely to use ehealth; Of those surveyed, 74% of the respondents had searched for health information on the Internet; WebMD is the most…
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Blogs for the medical field?
I came across this interesting article from BusinessweekOnline titled “Blogs will change your business“. The article was a description of the blog phenomenon and how it may impact businesses. While the examples were interesting to illustrate how the power of information is changing the dynamic between companies and customers, I got to thinking about the…
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Free thinking Fridays
I just returned from one of my regular meetings of the “Monday Morning group” (we now meet on Fridays). Today’s discussion was tentatively about Michel Foucault, using Discipline and Punish as the text. We weren’t able to get into a real in-depth discussion because the group had difficulty understanding the text. Why is it that…
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Welcome to the WiFi world – is this a good thing?
It seems like WiFi (wireless fidelity or wireless networking) is all the rage at the moment, with Wifi hotspots popping up everywhere. I can see how having easily accessible access to the Internet can be a good thing. But, is it so good when hospitals jump into the foray? Here’s an article that I found…
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Health information professionals – do we need them?
Events in the past few days have made me re-think some of my ideas about access to information, particularly health information. Just because the Internet and other sources provide access to information, is this enough? For example, in my PhD work, I’m constantly searching for information. As a result, I’m at an advantage when compared…
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Offline because of computer woes
I’ll be offline for at least a day because my primary computer has become very unstable. Apparently, my Sharp laptop doesn’t like some of the software I installed recently. I wonder if other systems have this issue. As I was telling someone today, I’d rather just use technology that’s reliable and works.
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Thoughts for a rainy Wednesday
I’m experiencing “bad” network traffic here at the Centre today. It’s raining outside, and I just got back from a presentation by Anna Gagliardi. Anna was doing a dry-run of her dissertation defence on June 22, 2005. Her topic was “Patient and professional perspectives on performance measurement in oncology”. I won’t divulge the details of…
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Paper: Understanding and preventing the demise of clinical information system
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…
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