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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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What accounts for I.T. implementation failure in the healthcare setting?  Why do clinicians and information technologists seem to talk pass each other?  In this short paper, I explore how these groups make up separate cultures and how these cultures come in conflict.
While most hesitate to couch such implementations as ‘battles’, one is able to come […]

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If you need an in-world guide to healthcare issues in the virtual world Second Life, Health Info Island now has a set that I developed.  It is an attempt to help those new to SL discover some of the depth and breadth of health issues.
Notecards that are available at that location include:

Healthcare Treatment
Healthcare Libraries and […]

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Here’s a screen shot of Knoh Oh at the Ann Myers Medical Center’s Admission Desk checking out the day’s schedule. To the right of Knoh is an Electronic Medical Record and Clinical Information System application being accessed from within the Second Life client.
It’s more of a proof of concept than anything else, but it does […]

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Best to be ready when the mood strikes-
Hipster template with  finger puppets and Shakespeare.
Hamster pdf
Hamster Scribus source
Released under Creative Commons 2.0
Attribution ShareAlike license

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For those interested, Second Life will have a series of things going on concerning World AIDs day, Dec 1st.
Rik has collected information about it.
Looks like they are getting ready over at HealthInfo Island.
I’ll try to get a little time in-world, so feel free to IM me, Knoh Oh.

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If you are interested in healthcare in Second Life, here are a few tips to get you going:
I’m taking snapshots in Second Life of various medical venues. I think it is a quick way to get an overview of the variety that is out there, without actually logging into Second Life: www.sluniverse.com/pics/Default.aspx?Name=Knoh+Oh
The main […]

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I am doing a bit of research on diabetes education and wanted to quickly check in with some folks about their experiences. This isn’t what the research is about, but I thought they could offer a few pointers of what to look for.
My first thought was Second Life, so I went in-world. […]

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The following is a paper I did for my first OHSU class, Introduction to Biomedical Informatics with Dr Hersh. I turned out pretty well, and I go back to it every now and then to grab a nice citation… so I’m putting it up for all to see.
Nothing much original here, just a […]

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Using a brain-computer interface, folks are able to operate an avatar in Second Life. (Article)
While I don’t think doing simple things with computers via brain waves is all that new, it is cool to see it used in a ‘freely available’ virtual environment populated be all sorts of folks from around the world. […]

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