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Cybernetics Bookshelf

dsoul — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:14:00 -0700

As I noted elsewhere, I'm looking at using Goodreads as a catalog system for my fairly extensive library.... here's a widget courtesy of the Goodreads people that gives a taste of some (I've only entered about 800 so far) of the books in my collection, in this case those I've tagged with the term 'cybernetics'

or, to see my complete 'cybernetics' shelf, click (and scroll down past tags see books) :

Security tips for EMR

dsoul — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:34:00 -0700

In Technology For Doctors Issie Rabinovitch passes on common sense suggestions to improve security on EMR systems:
http://www.canhealth.com/doctors.html#D06octstory2

EMR: Exam room configuration

dsoul — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:35:00 -0700

In CanadianEMR there is a whole section devoted to disussion Exam Room configurations and set up of the equipment for ...

Eighth Annual Survey of Electronic Health Trends and Usage (2006)

dsoul — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:41:00 -0700

Available from the Medical Records Institute (pdf) is their latest annual survey of EHR Trends and Usage which reveals insights ...

Expiration of Alberta POSP funding - what will it mean?

dsoul — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:00:00 -0700

Alan Brookstone has posted an interesting piece in CanadianEMR where he discusses the exipration of the Alberta Physician Office System ...

Electronic health records in Canada

dsoul — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:34:00 -0700

Despite a massive program sponsored by the federal and provincial government (Canada Health Infoway; 6 years; $1.1 billlion) less than 20% of Canadian GP's are actually using electonic IT systems for clinical care.

PITO FAQ Update

dsoul — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:28:00 -0700

The BC Ministry of Health has posted an update to their PITO Frequently Asked Question page.
Items marked as "new" ...

Physician User Group leaders meet with PITO

dsoul — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:52:00 -0700

Leaders of the Vancouver Coastal Health Physician User Group met with representatives of the the Physician Information Technology Office (PITO) ...

Attachment problems complicate the transfer of information between EMRs

dsoul — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:40:00 -0700

Alan Brookstone posts on CanadianEMR an article about a complex problem evident in the UK as a result of the ...

Retention of Records when Transitioning to an EMR

dsoul — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:00:00 -0700

In CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone writes about the complex complex issues that arrive as we move to the EMR in physician ...

Report - Beyond Good Intentions Conference - Are we Getting Closer?

dsoul — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:48:00 -0700

Writing in CanadianEMR, Alan Brookstone reports on a conference in Montebello, Quebec sponsored by Canada Health Infoway and the Health Council of Canada and points to an interesting document arising from the session that reveals a number of insights relating to EHR implementation.

Dr. Brookstones piece can be found at:
canadianemr/2006/07/beyond_good_int.html

The document "Beyond Good Intentions: Accelerating the Electronic Health Record in Canada" can be found at:
healthcouncilcanada.ca/docs/papers/2006/infoway.pdf

Remote Access to your EMR

dsoul — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:34:00 -0700

As Alan Brookstone notes in a posting on CanadianEMR,

"one of the great benefits of an EMR is the ability ...

BCMA: EMR commitment worries B.C. MDs

dsoul — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:09:00 -0700

In this article in The Medical Post, Matt Borsellino reports from the BCMA Annual Meeting that there is a groundswell ...

PITO Steering Committee announced

dsoul — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:12:00 -0700

Members of the Physician Information Technology Office Steering Committee have been announced.

BCMA Representatives
Dr. Michael Golbey Past President ...

The Search for the Holy Grail - 'Clinically Seductive Software'

dsoul — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:07:00 -0700

In CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone asks his readers:

"Have you used a clinically seductive EMR application or medical software tool? What ...

Frequently Asked Questions - Physician Information Technology Office (PITO)

dsoul — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:19:00 -0700

part of the newly negotiated agreement between the BCMA and the BC Government is a plan to coordinate the implementation ...

Physicians’ Use of Email With Patients: Factors Influencing Electronic Communication and Adherence to Best Practices

dsoul — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:57:00 -0700

In CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone reviews a study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research on Physician's use of e-mail with patients.

eHealth Collaboratory aims to test and improve EMRs

dsoul — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:52:00 -0700

As a 'proof of concept' the eHealth Collaboratory announced that 10 vendors had worked together to create an interoperable, electronic health-record solution.

The eHealth Collaboratory is a joint initative of the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation and Canada Health Infoway. According to this article in Canadian Healthcare Technology:

"not only is the Collaboratory assessing how EMR solutions conform to standards. It is also helping vendors and healthcare providers collaborate on solutions to an urgent problem in the e-Health sector - the inability of many systems to talk to each other."

The article is located at:
http://www.canhealth.com/News345.html

8 Lessons from Canada, Australia and England on EMR/EHR Implementation

dsoul — Wed, 10 May 2006 16:42:00 -0700

In CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone comments that:

"Canada is now being viewed as a leader in terms of establishing national leadership ...

Quebec to speed up development of EMRs

dsoul — Wed, 10 May 2006 12:27:00 -0700

Quebec has announced a $547 million plan to create a province-wide system of electronic medical records by the year 2011. ...

EMR and Liability Exposure

dsoul — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:34:00 -0700

A short but interesting thread in CanadianEMR tackles the topic

"If a physician has fully or partially implemented an EMR, ...

Learning from Abroad: Lessons and Questions on Personal Health Records for National Policy

dsoul — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:20:00 -0800

Alan Brookstone in CanadianEMR points to an paper from the US based AARP that compares and contrasts approaches taken in ...

Northern Health docs set the pace for EMR adoption

dsoul — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:56:00 -0800

Over 90 percent of doctors, in a mostly rural region bigger in area than France, are expected to be online ...

Local EMR vs. ASP based EMR. Which is the right EMR solution?

dsoul — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:44:00 -0800

An interesting discussion on CanadianEMR about the relative merits/drawbacks that the competing models of local EMR vs. and ASP based ...

Connections in Richmond, BC

dsoul — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:44:00 -0800

Pilot project currently under way to help determine the best way to provide "last mile connectivity" to primary care physicians and specialists

'Go Live' Without Going Nuts

dsoul — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:40:00 -0800

In this article in Physicians Practice, subtitled "Steps to a Successful EMR Implementation," Elaine Zablocki writes that

"... selecting and ...

Are smarter people better at ignoring things?

dsoul — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:36:00 -0800

from collision detection: Are smarter people better at ignoring things?
A team testing the "visual working memory" of a group of subjects by getting them to look at red and blue bricks in a picture found, much their suprise, that people with the largest capacity VWM weren't actually retaining lots of additional information, but infact were simply selective in what they retained....or possibly the real genius comes in stripping out inessential information (filtering) and holding only in mind the red bricks that the researchers asked them to pay attention to.

This, of course, is exactly the type of thing that we would expect a "viable" system should do... keep the requisite variety in balance by filtering .... one of the problems with our corporate IT systems is they are built with an underlying assumption that management's problem is in retaining huge quatities of raw data ... so the database will step up, and by george... it will store everything. Making subsequent analysis just a tad difficult sometimes.... in the move to real time worlds in business, there is a lesson to be learned here.

Active Database Manifesto

dsoul — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:56:00 -0800

In contrast to traditional database systems active database systems management are designed to automatically react to events....

An Active Networking Approach to Event Notification

dsoul — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:53:00 -0800

a prototype content-based publish/subscribe messaging system named AMS that takes an Active Networks approach...

STEAM (research group)

dsoul — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:49:00 -0800

Existing research on event-based middleware for wireless networks has mainly focused on what may be termed nomadic applications. .... In contrast we focus on collaborative applications.