Knowledge Rocks!

In an article related to the Digital Health counterpoint in Business Week, the role of physicians and their status is examined [Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine -- A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened].
It seems that a number of physicians in [...]

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Business Week publiched an article challenging the broad asumptions concerning the benefits of digital health initiatives. It is worth reading along with the sidebar article highlighting Newt Gingrich’s Health-Care Mission.
In a nutshell, this article provides links to research and cases where the promise of electronic health has not been realized. It is always good to [...]

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Business week maintains a good collection of health IT articles worth browsing. You may want to check on this periodically.

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One of the challenges facing public health is the early recognition of problems. With the benefit of hindsight, we look back at outbreaks such as SARS and now more recently Swine Flu (H1N1) and we can see the information trail that precedes the Eureka moment or discovery point.
In retrospect, with SARS, there was chatter on [...]

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For a number of years, I have explored a concept (or framework) I call “Information Integration“. Whether we are looking intra-organizationally, at groups or inter-organizationally, information has a number of roles to play. For example, information acts as a vector for the transfer of knowledge (boundary spanning) or as a means of coordination. But one [...]

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Most of my colleagues and friends know that I have a strong research interest in questions of expertise, including topics such as expertise: development; management; networking; location; sharing; communities; etc. So, when I read July 29th Science Times section in the NY Times, I was surprised, and delighted, to find three articles that illustrate the [...]

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