Canada Health Infoway recently launched a campaign with the slogan “Knowing is Better“. I have seen the TV ads and this drew me in turn to the web site. If you are tracking progress regarding the Electronic Health (or Medical) Record you should check out this site for the promotion ideas contained therein. I await [...]
Entries Tagged as 'KM'
Knowing is Better
October 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Categories: Healthcare informatics · KM
Tags: eHealth, EHR, EMR
Legal Project Management meets Knowledge Management
October 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments
I have been in two session recently where the debate goes on about the role of knowledge management in legal project management. (Aside: Funny how we attached the label ‘legal’ to PM these days to make the distinction; but we don’t do the same with KM. Anyway, back to the main purpose of this post.) [...]
Categories: KM · Legal · Project Management
Tags: KM, Legal, Legal Project Management, LPM
Group Knowledge In Action
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments
I came across this story in Scientific American about how a group of mathematicians work together to solve (math) problems. Two cases are presented: the case of French mathematicians working together; and the other a more recent Internet-based collaboration: From the April 2010 Scientific American Magazine Problem Solved, LOL Blog comments point to a new, [...]
Categories: Collaboration · Expertise networking · KM · Social networks
Tags: cognitoin, Expertise networking, Expertise Networks, group cognition, group knowledge
Another old quote about knowledge
May 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” ~~ attributed to Benjamin Franklin
Cyborgs and augmented cognition
May 3rd, 2010 · 19 Comments
I came across an article in the April issue of Wired, Clive Thompson on the Cyborg Advantage.In this article, Clive tells the story of how, after having been beat by IBM’s Deep Blue, Garry Kasparov observed that “(H)uman smarts and silicon smarts work in very different ways” — “which gave Kasparov an intriguing idea. Instead [...]
Categories: Ideas · Information Technology · Organizational cognition
Tags: augmented cognition, cognitoin, cyborgs, Internet
Learning collaboration from the Crazy Canucks
May 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
I had the great fortune to listen to Steve Podborski, the first non-European World Cup Champion (1982), of the Crazy Canucks (CCs) ski team speak at a dinner a few years ago. I was reminded of this watching their story on the bio channel. I remember Steve talking about one thing that made the CCs [...]
Categories: Collaboration · KM
Tags: Collaboration, Expertise networking, KM
Will Inter-Professional Care (IPC) take root?
May 28th, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Categories: Expertise networking · Healthcare informatics · KM
Tags: Case study, EHR, EMR, IPC
Swine Flu (H1N1) – An Information Problem?
May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Categories: Healthcare informatics · information Management · KM
Tags: information, Information Science, KM
Watching Swine Flu evolve
May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
As swine flu (or should I be calling this H1N1) was at the top of the news, I saw this story on TV about a genetic scientist who was riveted to his computer screen watching the genetic sequence of the virus as it was changing. He has these strings of numbers and characters coming up [...]
Categories: information Management · Information Technology · KM
Tags: Bio-Informatics, Information Science
Defining Knowledge Management (KM)
May 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Kimiz Dalkir at McGill once told me she collected definitions for Knowledge Management. At the time she published her excellent book (Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice) she had collected and catalouged over a hundred definitions. When we spoke, I believe she had over 180; most of which were different. In part, this demonstrates the [...]