Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
HCTP Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop 2004 – Day 1 thoughts…
It’s been a while since I last posted, but I’ve been somewhat caught up on readings and preparing some of the background work for my thesis/dissertation work. In any case, I attended this year’s Health Care, Technology, & Place (HCTP) Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop held at St. Andrew’s Club in Toronto, Canada. Here are some of…
-
eHealth in the news
Here are some news that I stumbled onto regarding eHealth during the past week or so: European e-Government to get €37.5M from EU eTEN programme Funding announcement for public-private projects on Europe’s “e” projects, including eHealth. DO-IT-YOURSELF diagnosis is a popular online activity An article in the Friday March 5, 2004 edition of the Toronto…
-
Reading list
As part of my PhD preparations, I’ve been spending large portions of my reading, and still finding that there is too much material to cover. I’m in the midst of compiling a reading list for ehealth. The plan is to post this growing list in the research section of my site once I get a…
-
Qualitative resources
Here are some interesting on-line resources regarding qualitative research: – an interesting paper by Myers titled “Investigating information systems with ethnographic research” – Action Research Resources – an online site dedicated to action research/qualitative methods I’ve found several more, but I’m currently in the process of reviewing the materials, so I will update this post…
-
Open Source
I’ve been thinking about open source software (OSS) and its potential. Actually, I’m interested in investigating the relationship, if any, between OSS and ehealth. I understand the following things about OSS: there is a range of understanding/definitions regarding the term “open source” the OSS “movement” is growing What really boggles me is in trying to…
-
Healthcare Informatics Technology Trends
Here’s an interesting article published by Healthcare Informatics Online. The authors present what they believe are nine technology trends in health care informatics. Clinical Decision Support Consumer-Driven Healthcare CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) Disease Surveillance National Standards Open Source Security Web Services Work flow Automation It’s interesting to see this list of trends compared with…
-
A sign of things to come?
An article from the E-Health Insider reports that Microsoft is in discussions with National Health Service/National Program for IT on how Microsoft “software can be best configured to support delivery of the national programme”. Nothing too spectacular about the article in and of itself, but I think this type of report may be foreshadowing things…
Got any book recommendations?