Thursday, August 6, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
IT in the Ward
Mobile and Fixed Computer Use by Doctors and Nurses on Hospital Wards: Multi-method Study on the Relationships Between Clinician Role, Clinical Task, and Device Choice
An interesting Australian-Danish study
http://www.jmir.org/2009/3/e32/HTML
An interesting Australian-Danish study
http://www.jmir.org/2009/3/e32/HTML
Twitter and Health 2.0
A video from VizEdu featuring Berci (Bertalan Mesko)'s ideas of how Twitter can be used throughout the healthcare system.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
The Twitter Book
The Twitter Book
By Tim O'Reilly, Sarah Milstein May 2009
Best viewed in full screen!
By Tim O'Reilly, Sarah Milstein May 2009
Best viewed in full screen!
The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Ranking Hospital Websites....
The Ranking Web of World Hospitals is introduced as a tool for showing the commitment of health organizations to the electronic publication and dissemination of academic information related to medicine. The Top Hospitals should be prone to share their information not only with other colleagues (physicians, researchers, scholars) but also with the rest of society, patients, community leaders, managers and citizens in general.
The Web indicators measure electronic contents, especially those used for scholarly communication, but also basic information about the hospital, its organization, services and personnel. The rank takes into account both the volume of information published and the impact or visibility of such contents measured by the number of external links the web pages receive from others.
European top 100... Denmark just makes it at 91.
The Web indicators measure electronic contents, especially those used for scholarly communication, but also basic information about the hospital, its organization, services and personnel. The rank takes into account both the volume of information published and the impact or visibility of such contents measured by the number of external links the web pages receive from others.
European top 100... Denmark just makes it at 91.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Eysenbach: Consumer health informatics
Seminar at University of Twente, the Netherlands (N.B. 101 slides)
Eysenbach: Consumer health informatics
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John Snow would have tweeted
Epidemiology via twitter? Can't find the mash-up referred to unfortunately.
Top 10 Nursing Traits
Top 10 Nursing Traits?
I thoroughly endorse 8 of them (but 6 and 9 should be properly rewarded) but would issue a strong caution about 7 and 8 (which really should be combined into one). There is little or no evidence (as opposed to assertion or assumption) to support the view that all or most nurses are perfect or even excellent intuitive decision makers. For example most studies show that requiring nurses (and of course doctors!) to follow evidence-based protocols/scoring systems/nomograms leads to higher quality care. The trait that is needed in both professions is the meta-cognitive one of the ability to carry out fairly intuitively what I call a 'Value of Analysis Analysis', deciding, in this particular case, whether or not their 'quick' intuitive judgment/decision is likely to be optimal. It may be or it may not be. Their own performance in the past should be an input into their judgement. Fortunately I think that many experienced nurses (and doctors) do possess this ability but it is important to recognise it for what it is and not over-romanticise about 'reflection-in-action'
I thoroughly endorse 8 of them (but 6 and 9 should be properly rewarded) but would issue a strong caution about 7 and 8 (which really should be combined into one). There is little or no evidence (as opposed to assertion or assumption) to support the view that all or most nurses are perfect or even excellent intuitive decision makers. For example most studies show that requiring nurses (and of course doctors!) to follow evidence-based protocols/scoring systems/nomograms leads to higher quality care. The trait that is needed in both professions is the meta-cognitive one of the ability to carry out fairly intuitively what I call a 'Value of Analysis Analysis', deciding, in this particular case, whether or not their 'quick' intuitive judgment/decision is likely to be optimal. It may be or it may not be. Their own performance in the past should be an input into their judgement. Fortunately I think that many experienced nurses (and doctors) do possess this ability but it is important to recognise it for what it is and not over-romanticise about 'reflection-in-action'
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