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I have distinct childhood memories of asking my mother what one word or another meant. She would point out that there was a dictionary close at hand designed exactly for that purpose and invite me to make use of it.
I remember asking my father to teach me to program in BASIC. He cheerfully […]

Again, not new- but new to me:

The ubiquitous computing concepts shown in the video make someone like me drool. It would seem that the future is flat, rectilinear, and white with pastel accents1.
Still, do you see anything in this video that really strikes you as revolutionary for healthcare …or is it all just really […]

6 months old, but new to me (dang it):
Check out this helpful screencast on how to use Yahoo! Pipes to translate a feed from one language to another.

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Flash SlideCast embedded above. If you are reading this in an aggregator, you may need to visit the site to view/hear the SlideCast.

Okay, not the most engaging way to introduce the Cochrane Collaboration- but still neat.
For another introduction, see this video.

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I so enjoyed how he spoke about these issues on Uncontrolled Vocabulary the other night that I asked Michael Sauers to blog about them…and he did!
Excerpt:
Why do so many libraries insist on treating their public-access computers differently from every other type of media in the building. Think about it, anyone can come in off the […]

Added to the List of Medical Wikis:
Wiki Doc

Self-description: “WikiDoc is intended to be a shared resource for housestaff (in preparation for morning report), medical students (in preparation for morning rounds) and fellows (in preparation for conferences). Nurses and attending physicians may find it valuable to share and improve upon their fund of general medical knowledge.”
Intended […]

The not-for-profit iHealth Alliance, a not-for-profit group operated by the for-profit company Medem, plans to launch a Web site that will e-mail physicians to notify them of significant label changes, warnings and recalls related to medications, the Wall Street Journal reports. Currently, physicians receive most notifications by regular mail.
Pharmaceutical companies will pay to use the […]

Info.RxCases is a “companion to a new health information service that is being offered to patients and their families at the Herzl Family Practise Centre in Montreal, Quebec.”

Blogger Francesca Frati (previously mentioned here) writes:
The Patient health Information Service at Herzl (H-PHIS) opened its doors in early July of this year (2007) and is in the […]

The World Health Organization has an online Fracture Risk Assessment Tool.

The FRAXTM tool has been developed by WHO to evaluate fracture risk of patients. It is based on individual patient models that integrate the risks associated with clinical risk factors as well as bone mineral density (BMD) at the femoral neck.
The FRAXTM models have […]

Wikis in HIM education:
Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2008 Jan 30;5:1. (Free full text: HTML | PDF)
Using wiki in an online record documentation systems course.
Harris ST, Zeng X.
College of Allied Health Sciences at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, USA.
We report a case study using a wiki tool, Confluence, including a brief history, current status, and […]

But PatientsLikeMe seeks to go a mile deeper than health-information sites like WebMD or online support groups like Daily Strength. The members of PatientsLikeMe don’t just share their experiences anecdotally; they quantify them, breaking down their symptoms and treatments into hard data. They note what hurts, where and for how long. They list their drugs […]

Proof of how far behind I am on my reading: I just now noticed this article from Wired.
A Tech Rx for Doctors: The iPhone

“Whether it’s new imaging apps or a database of patient information, ultimately, the same concerns that businesses have expressed about the iPhone will be the ones that hospital IT departments will bring […]

The Cochrane tutorial video I posted a few days ago from YouTube was good in its content, but the quality of the image left something to be desired.
James Carson, the reference/acquisitions librarian at Lake-Sumter Community College who put the tutorial together was kind to contact me and point me towards the much higher quality version.

If […]

In the middle of an attempt to explain RSS to a Facebook user (who is already uniwittingly making use of RSS feeds), this exchange cracked me up:
the_dude: I haven’t heard of those Facebook apps. Tumblr? Reddit? Digg?
engtech: Those aren’t Facebook apps. They’re different websites. You don’t have to login to Facebook to read them. They’re […]

Journal of the Medical Library Association and health sciences library director and Andrew Booth, a leader in EBLIP from the U.K., discuss whether the model of evidence based practice as it has evolved in other fields such as health sciences can be applied to the field of library and information science. Plutchak questions whether the […]

I got a number of interesting responses to my post on Susannah Fox’s brief speech.
Susannah’s work at the Pew Internet & American Life Project is really good stuff and I enthusiastically recommend reading all of it- but I gave her a hard time for elements of her remarks at the Health 2.0 (non-)conference […]

I had a really interesting conversation last week with Mark Achler of Spine-health.com (and formerly of Emmi Solutions). Mark agreed to allow me to use GrandCentral to record the call- and I used SlideShare to make the SlideCast embedded below.

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From Lake-Sumter Community College Libraries:

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(The title of this post was going to be “Ambulatory and with Tremors,” but figured I’d be the only one amused by it.)
So Library Journal named me one of their 2008 Movers & Shakers.
(I’m curious: Are those named in this annual list all people who either move OR shake or people who both move AND […]

Patricia Anderson (whose slides I always find worth a look) put up a new presentation yesterday:

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