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(Analyzing Healthcare as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS)
One of my fellow students at OHSU turned me on to CAS, and I’ve been researching it in my spare time. It really strikes a cord with me, and I am curious to develop a pragmatic understanding of it. I plan to summarize this in a paper.  I [...]

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I often get this question, along with blank stares, when telling people what I am studying.  Some of the blankest looks come from those in the medical profession.  Here’s my 30 second elevator speech:
Medical Informatics is the study of information and its flow in the healthcare setting.  Typically you can think of it as “computers [...]

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For those of you interested in reputation management systems, I wrote an overview for Dr. Hersh’s Information Retrieval course as part of my Biomedical Informatics Graduate Certificate.  I think it turned out well- here’s the abstract:

As more people turn to the Internet for information, they may find themselves reading material from, or participating [...]

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