More on Healthspace- May 8, 2008 5.2.11. Against the above six criteria, HealthSpace scores somewhat differently: a. The perceived relative advantage of HealthSpace is much lower than that of the SCR (a common comment by patients and staff was I cant see the point of it). b. In its present iteration, HealthSpace is also complex a feature largely attributable to the tight security measures (which may be difficult to change).http://nelh.blogspot.com/2008/05/more-on-healthspace.html On Healthspace- May 8, 2008 Page 13 of the report: We suggest that the NPfIT National Programme Board consider uncoupling HealthSpace from the SCR programme. In the view of the evaluation team, stakeholders in HealthSpace should prioritise optimising the design and use of this technology in specific, clearly-defined use scenarios (e.g. supporting self-care in one 14 or two chronic conditions) before attempting to offer ithttp://nelh.blogspot.com/2008/05/on-healthspace.html Evaluating NPfIT- May 8, 2008 Trish Greenhalgh on her experience of evaluating the NPfIT Summary Care Record: An early finding of this evaluation was that many stakeholders tended to polarise these tensions into simplistic and morally absolute dualisms (bad central control versus good local emergence; bad technical designers versus good caring clinicians, and so on), and demonise what they characterised as the otherhttp://nelh.blogspot.com/2008/05/evaluating-npfit.html iGoogle in the University- May 6, 2008 Meeting with members of the computer science department of a leading university a few days ago. Most of them were using iGoogle and GMail as clients in preference to the university IT department supplied services.http://nelh.blogspot.com/2008/05/igoogle-in-university.html Being Semantic- May 6, 2008 Tagging Goes Semantic With Zigtag - sounds interesting, a kind of hybrid folksonomytaxonomy approach. What struck me though was the way in which the word semantic is a good thing to include in 2008. Perhaps publishers should start selling semantic dictionaries.http://nelh.blogspot.com/2008/05/being-semantic.html Semantic Interoperability for Electronic Health Records- May 5, 2008 John Halamka sets out the current state of semantic Interoperability for Electronic Health Recordshttp://nelh.blogspot.com/2008/05/semantic-interoperability-for.html |