Category Archives: Collaboration / Community

(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 … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 … Continue reading →

Enhancing Asynchronous Internet Communication with Information Technology I researched this topic for a Consumer Health Information class at OHSU. I think the paper turned out well and could use a wider audience. I tried to come from my experience of … Continue reading →