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What is a Medical Informaticist?
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 … Continue reading
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Identifying Health Experts in Online Forums
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 … Continue reading
Clinicians Vs Information Technologists
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 … Continue reading
We are the face of SL Health…
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 … Continue reading
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Animation on the side of a pot?
The goblet excavated at the Burnt City site in Iran has 5 images which when looked at consecutively forms an animation. This animation has been making its rounds. By placing the images in on a bowl, it could be a … Continue reading
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