Hi Heather, As far as I can see, the technology that has been introduced into our lives in the last 10 years have the following effects in clinical domain:
Internet: clinicians can now reach other clinicians at the other side of the world and disagree with them. Web 2.0: Clinicians can now disagree with the clinicians who disagree with clinicians with whom they already disagree. Google Wave: All clinicians disagree real time.... Kidding of course. What I'd like to have would be a list of twitting, or blogging members of the community, though I don't know how to get access to such a list, or keep it up to date. Best Regards Seref On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Heather Leslie < heather.leslie at oceaninformatics.com> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Had the same experiences; just drew a different conclusion, I guess;-) > > I had refused to have a Facebook account until Feb this year, and I still > only know of two others who have ever Twittered (or is it tweeted)! I'm > definitely a newbie in all of this, but want to explore it to see what I can > learn from these new technologies, especially where they might enable or > support the work we are doing as a community in openEHR and specifically in > getting CKM up and running smoothly. Twitter and similar phenomenon may > disappear a la Beta video; or they may take over the world - who knows. > > My family continues to reminds me (somewhat gloatingly) that I had to be > pushed, kicking and screaming, to accept internet and email into our house > (in the very early days) - after all none of our friends had it, and what on > earth was I going to use it for? I try to be more open now! > > In my observation open source communites, including openEHR, have a certain > je ne sais quoi factor that attracts like-minded individuals who work > together in a way that doesn't happen elsewhere. The openEHR technical > specifications have benefited from this and harnessed the technical > expertise through an engineering process of change requests, ARB etc that > seems to have worked really well. > > We now have the exciting challenge of engaging and harnessing the power of > the clinicians to agree the clinical content through CKM - I suspect that it > will be a more socially oriented challenge. Working with openEHR and > particularly on CKM has interested me in the concepts around Collective > Intelligence, and the networking that comes from Web 2.0 interactivity, > hence my previous email. > > As a clinician I think I am allowed to say that it is not easy to get a > group of independent and strong minded clinicians working together - the > experience is commonly referred to as 'herding cats' and some add > '...through a waterfall'. I'll take the opportunity to refer my favourite, > 'oldie but a goodie' video on YouTube to divert for a minute - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWymXNPaU7g. > > I'll get off my soapbox now. But will share one final thing that has > excited me in recent days. Have you seen the Google Wave preview? - > http://wave.google.com/ It is so cool. Can't you just see clinicians > collaborating in real-time and asynchronously using something like this - I > can. I want it already;-) > > Cheers > > Heather > > > > > I think social networking has already become a disruptive technology > > By the time one has checked all the twitters, blogs, linked in, forums, > facebook, mailing lists, myspace, emails, notifications > > it is usually lunchtime > > leaving the afternoon to reply to them all and cleanup your inbox, > blackberry, .... > > > sometimes it pays off to be unsociable :-) > > > -- > Gregory Caulton > Principal at PatientOS Inc. > personal email: caultonpos at gmail.com > http://www.patientos.com > corporate: (888)-NBR-1EMR || fax 857.241.3022 > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing listopenEHR-clinical at > openehr.orghttp://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 4204 (20090701) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > http://www.eset.com > > > -- > > *Dr Heather Leslie* > MBBS FRACGP FACHI > Director of Clinical Modelling > *Ocean Informatics <http://www.oceaninformatics.com/>* > Phone (Aust) +61 (0)418 966 670 > Skype - heatherleslie > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20090703/18801152/attachment.html>
