Open access - how well do our areas do- August 13, 2008 We've discussed quite a few aspects of open access on this blog over the years, so a recent email from BioMed Central (http:www.biomedcentral.com) lead me to looking into our areas of interest - nursing, health informatics, e-learning, etc. - to see how well we scored in the open access stakes. The 'Open Access Quotient' (OAQ) was introduced on the BioMed Central blog in July 2007 (>>>); thehttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/08/open-access-how-well-do-our-areas-do.html ClinicalTemplates.org- August 12, 2008 While the standards world was besotted with terminology over the last 20 years, clinical modelling remained relatively unloved and under-resourced, with the occasional exception (eg GALEN) proving the rule. It may have been obvious that terms would never 'enable' the EPR without some structures to hang them on, but it has taken a while for this to get more serious attention in the informaticshttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/08/clinicaltemplatesorg.html Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0 - discussion paper- August 6, 2008 A new peer-reviewed paper just released on JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research - www.jmir.org) is titled "Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0: Tensions and Controversies in the Field" >>> I have not had chance to read the full paper yet, but it looks like a useful contribute to the ongoing discussions of the nature of the two memes - and hopefully will promote some useful discussion if it ishttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/08/health-20-and-medicine-20-discussion.html Video Games Improve Medication Compliance- August 5, 2008 Play video games can help with pediatric patient medication compliance (16% increase). From the August 2008 issue of Pediatrics, cited in a Yahoo! (Reuters): In Re-Mission (http:www2.re-mission.net), developed by HopeLab, a Redwood City, California-based non-profit company, players control a tiny robot called Roxxi who moves around in a 3-D environment representing the inside of the body of ahttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/08/video-games-improve-medication.html Nurses and decision support- August 5, 2008 Peter Murray, on his Release Zero Blog, has published a useful summary and comment piece entitled Nurses' decision making and new technologies: research report related to a major report examining "Factors likely to influence how nurses use new technologies to inform their decision making, in particular through their use of computerised decision support systems (CDSS)." Peter makes somehttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/08/nurses-and-decision-support.html Patient Opinion mashing up reviews and NHS choices data- August 3, 2008 Patient Opinion, a not-for-profit social enterprise web site which encourages patients to share their experience of their treatment in the NHS, has become the first organisation to mash up data feeds provided by the Department of Healths NHS Choices web site, with that already published about local services on Patient Opinion. This follows the Cabinet Offices recent release of manyhttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/08/patient-opinion-mashing-up-reviews-and.html |