September 2008
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WatchThe convergence of humility, randomness, uncertainty and big impact, rare unpredictable events is growing on me, and www.bloggingheads.tv is adding fuel to my interest. It is perhaps the closest resemblance to a ‘lawful wire-tapping’ where you can watch and listen the conversations between two experts in specific fields, and on various topics. Not surprisingly, discussions on...
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“an epistemocrat is a practitioner (a thinker and a doer) who embraces (via...”
– healthcare epistemocrat
Did you know there were 51 definitions of eHealth?
Quite unexpected to find our 2005 systematic review of eHealth definitions as the main “Fact and Stat” on today’s eHealthrecord.info newsletter.
Here are two of my favourite quotes from the article that still apply to Health 2.0 and all next reincarnations of eHealth.
“None of the published definitions suggests that eHealth may have any adverse, negative, harmful, or...
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WatchKnow thyself vs ignorance is bliss
There is a growing number of innovations to help people track their lives. Their premise is that it is of benefit to find trends and correlations of aggregate social networking, financial, physical, productivity and nutritional data. Certainly there are always pros and cons to using these applications but knowledge does not necessarily result...
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INFORMATION OVERLOAD (Part 2)
Marina Englesakis, information librarian at the Toronto General Hospital and I have been discussing the topic of information overload for a few weeks. She sent me a few statistics yesterday which she finds alarming. There are:
20,000 biomedical periodicals with more 6M articles
17,000 biomedical books published annually
30,000 recognized diseases
15,000 therapeutic agents developed...
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“My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their...”
– A quote by Nassim Taleb, interested in turning lack of information, lack of understanding, and lack of “knowledge” into decisions.
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/
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Im-patient
Today I stumbled upon a paper entitled “The Impatient Patient” by L Bos and colleagues. This article comes as breath of fresh air and a ‘sign’ to continue thinking, writing, and proposing solutions to help, advocate, broker, and mediate better deals for patients.
I would have loved to be the first to publish an article with such name given the previous efforts of the...