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Report: Phoenix Suns 'love' Indiana's Victor Oladipo
The NBA Draft is still a few weeks away, but that does not mean teams aren't beginning to narrow in on players.
Case in point, Arizona Sports 620's John Gambadoro is reporting, based on conversations he's had, that the Phoenix Suns "love" Indiana guard Victor Oladipo and will select him if he's still on the board when they're on the clock at No. 5.
"They love Oladipo; they really like Oladipo," Gambadoro said on Burns & Gambo Friday. "So if he falls to five, there's a really good chance they're going to take him.
"That's if he falls there."
A 6-foot-5, 214-pound player, Oladipo averaged 13.6 points and 6.3 rebounds per game for the Hoosiers last season. He shot nearly 60 percent from the floor and made 44 percent of his three-point attempts. He's also an excellent defender.
However, the Suns are not the only team interested in adding Oladipo, and at number five there is a legitimate chance he will not be there for them to pick.

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RenderMan is both a software and an application programming interface (API) for network distributed rendering of complex and potentially ray-traced three-dimensional views, employing a render farm of many client computers. The clients do not require 3D graphics cards, but may benefit from them if they are available.
Rendering of ray-traced scenes and animations containing optical reflection, colored lights and colored surfaces, hair/fur, and lens distortions can take hours, days, weeks, months, or years for a single computer to process, depending on the complexity, detail, and size of the individual images. For animations, the frame-rate and total time period of the animation sequence can also greatly extend the total render time.
The render process can be accelerated by subdividing the overall individual images into, for example, 10x10 pixel patches and distributing the calculation of each patch across a large collection of other networked computers. For extremely complex images and very large server farms, individual pixels can be distributed for processing by each render client.
Businesses and universities can harness regular workday office or lab computers for intense overnight render tasks when the equipment would otherwise be idle and unneeded. Rendering can also be done continuously as a low-priority background process on the office/lab computers.
Historically, the first incarnation of RenderMan was as a Macintosh program running on Motorola 68000/68030 processors, System 6 and LocalTalk. Render farm calculations were display independent; for example, a fast Macintosh SE/30 with monochrome-only output could take part in rendering full-color images, sending the results back to a color-capable but slower Macintosh II.
The name RenderMan can cause confusion because it has currently been used to refer to different things developed by Pixar:


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Holy Fuck try to recreate their album's sounds when they play, without the use of samples or laptops. It's always made them entertaining live — it's especially fun watching them work that film synchronizer to add in scratched and squiggles. According to photographer Andrew Youssef, the Toronto band used something a bit more conventional — rows of strobe lights — to add some visual interest to their set on Thursday night at the Troubadour. They played a lot of tunes from their latest, Latin, and Holy Fuck's Brian Borcherdt even switched to guitar for one song. It's a rare move for them, but not for Borcherdt — his solo albums are nearly all minimal guitar and voice compositions. Portland's Nice Nice opened the show.
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BMW's Electric Car Crushes Tesla on the Sales Charts
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- That was fast! It took only three months.
On the fourth month of BMW selling its all-new, from-the-ground-up electric car, the numbers show sales of BMW's i3 are 70% higher than Tesla's (TSLA) in the U.S. market. According to industry authority insideevs' best estimates, Tesla sold 600 cars in the U.S. in August compared to BMW i3 sales of 1,025.
Part of this story is not just BMW's sharp increase in electric car sales but Tesla's spectacular collapse in U.S. sales this year. Tesla's August number represented a 54% decline over last year.
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Tesla's U.S. sales collapse was even worse in July -- a 72% decline from last year. What about the first half of 2014 as a whole? Tesla's U.S. sales fell from 10,050 cars in 2013 to 7,400 in 2014. That's a 26% decline.
Over the last year Tesla has been shipping more cars abroad, preventing overall sales from declining. First, it was Norway, then Holland, then Norway again. Now it's going to be China this quarter. We shall see how that goes.
Actually, now that I think of it, let's look at some of those international sales numbers, to the extent that they are available since Tesla does not disclose monthly figures. Let's start with Tesla's flagship country, Norway. Tesla sold 183 cars there in August, but BMW has passed Tesla there, too, with sales of 202.
Meanwhile, in some other European countries, according to their monthly auto registration statistics, Tesla's August sales numbers practically round to zero:
Finland: 8
Spain: 1
Italy: 4
Estonia: 4
Belgium: 26
Holland: 70
Austria: 9
If Tesla's spectacular sales collapse in 2014 doesn't reverse itself dramatically in September and beyond, it will miss this year's 35,000-unit sales guidance.
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Typically, in an extreme momentum story where the multiples paid for the stock are on the order of 10 times greater than the best of the competition, one expects that only massive beats/raises will do in order to keep the stock at a premium multiple. One does not look at U.S. sales declines of 54%, 72% and 26% (August, July and first half 2014) and say "Wow, this company is really growing fast!"
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Los Angeles: On May 31, 2002, two friends of Peter Cruz, a 21 year-old resident of Northridge, responded to the Cruz residence after being unable to contact him over a period of four days. The friends knocked on the door, but no one answered. They peered through a window and observed what they thought to be signs of a possible struggle inside the apartment. The friends then notified the Los Angeles Police Department.
Responding officers gained entrance to the apartment and observed tangible signs of apparent foul play, however, Mr. Cruz was no where to be found. The officers further found out that his vehicle had been impounded from private property in Panorama City on May 31, 2002.
Devonshire Homicide detectives have assumed responsibility for the missing person investigation and have determined that an apparent assault occurred inside the apartment during the early morning hours of May 29, which likely resulted in great bodily injury to an involved party.
As a result of the on-going investigation, detectives identified Robert Wynn, a 23 year-old Filipino gang member as the suspect in this case. Search and arrest warrants were served at his North Hills residence on July 24, 2002. Suspect Wynn was absent from his residence, however, information was obtained that led to the identification of follow-up location in the City of Berkeley, California.
With the cooperation of the Oakland Police Department, Wynn was arrested on Wednesday, July 24, 2002, in Berkeley. Suspect Wynn was transported back to Los Angeles on Thursday, July 25, 2002.
Further information led the detectives to the location of human remains in a remote area of the Angeles Crest Forest above La Canada/Flintridge.
On Friday, July 26, 2002, a joint effort by Devonshire Homicide detectives, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Montrose Search and Rescue Team, resulted in the recovery of human remains along the Angeles Crest Highway.
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Jabra is the name in Bluetooth headsets, so when I saw that the Jabra Supreme UC cost $149.99, I wasn't that surprised. That's a lot of money to be sure, but you're paying for quality, right? That's what I set off to find out.
Twice as Nice
While Bluetooth headsets are primarily used with mobile devices, they can be just as handy when used with a desktop PC or laptop, something that Jabra is encouraging with the inclusion of a Bluetooth USB adapter. The headset can pair with two devices simultaneously, so it can be your go-to device for answering both your mobile phone and a Skype call on your computer. You know those people everyone hates because their headsets are glued to their ears? Jabra wants you to be one of those people.
Music is a No-No
Let's get one thing out of the way immediately. One of the features of the Supreme UC is the ability to stream music. This is also the device's biggest letdown. Ignoring the fact that listening to music in one ear pales in comparison to listening in both (you could say it's half the experience), the audio quality just isn't good enough for music. While communication is of the utmost importance, music demands a higher audio quality than a phone call. If you don't have any earbuds then yes, the headset is an option for listening to music, but it won't be a pleasant experience.
Voice is a Yes!
I'm writing this portion of the review using the headset in conjunction with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Voice command technology seems to be one of those things that we can't quite pin down, and not just because of the software's inability to accurately decipher what you say. Hardware plays a big part in it too. If your voice isn't coming through clearly enough, that makes the software's job even more difficult. My attempts at using Dragon NaturallySpeaking have been hit or miss, but using the Supreme UC, I'm having the most success I've ever had with the program. That alone should speak volumes about the audio quality.
Another area in which the headset shined was with gaming. Obviously you can use it for PC gaming, but as with music, you wouldn't want to because you'd be sacrificing "surround sound" for using just one ear. The headset worked well with the PlayStation 3, however, and using it with games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Borderlands 2 made it extremely easy to give and receive orders. I was able to hear anonymous teenagers on the Internet call me homophobic slurs in unparalleled clarity.
Simple to Use
Next to the audio quality, the best thing about the headset is how easy it is to use it. Voice commands made pairing a breeze and if you throw the Bluetooth adapter into your computer and turn the headset on, it pairs automatically. The device automatically switches on when you flip open the boom mic and a "power on" message lets you know that the device is working. Charging the device to capacity doesn't take more than a few hours and it took days of sporadic use for the battery to deplete. Heavy music use would surely deplete it faster, but like I said, you won't be using the device for that.
Build and Comfort Level
A removable hook means that the device can be worn on either ear, and my one issue in this area is that wearing glasses makes it slightly uncomfortable. I'm not sure if that's the fault of Jabra or simply the luck of the draw. A faux-leather padding on the actual ear piece makes it very comfortable against your ear. If the padding slips off, it's a bit of a pain to fit it back on. That said, the hook that wraps around you ear has the same leathery padding coating on it, and while it could be a tad more comfortable, it would take hours of use to really become a problem. In my experience, Bluetooth headsets are either comfortable but hang too loose, or they fit snugly but to the point of discomfort. The Supreme UC manages to find a nice balance between the two.
The construction of the device is very simple. It's a tiny round body, not unlike a large, scary beetle, with a fold-out boom mic and adjustable/removable ear hook. Despite its light weight, it feels sturdy, though obviously you should handle all expensive electronics delicately. The Supreme UC also comes with an AC charger, a USB cable, a car charger, and a small case that snugly fits the headset and USB adapter. It would be nice if the case fit a charger as well, but a free case is a free case.
Worth the Price?
With the exception of playing music, which you shouldn't be using a Bluetooth headset for anyway, the Supreme UC does its job extremely well. The $150 price tag might be a bit much for some (you can find it for as low as $95 online), especially since a lot of people could probably get away with using a lesser headset, but the Supreme UC is more or less without any major flaws.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256090682014-12-23T00:19:10.163ZHodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD- provides a space devoted to the conceptual framework known as Hodges' model. A potential resource within HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE, INFORMATICS and EDUCATION the model incorporates two axes: individual-group and humanistic-group with four care (knowledge) domains - Sciences, Interpersonal, Political and Social. Follow the development of a new website using Drupal as I commence post graduate distance-learning studies in January 2014. See our bibliography, archive and please do get in touch. Welcome.Peter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-77909076239554461092014-12-04T17:52:00.000Z2014-12-04T17:52:13.689ZReport: Personalised Health and Care 2020 [II] - National Information Board
individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

group

"All patient and care records digital,
real time and interoperable by 2020."	 "Clinicians in primary, urgent
and emergency care, and other key transitions
of care contexts will be operating without paper records by 2018."

"Patients have access to their hospital,
community, mental health and social care services records by 2018."
"By April 2016, commissioners and providers
must publish "road maps" showing how they
will develop interoperable digital records
and services by 2020."

Report: Personalised Health and Care 2020. National Information Board. November 2014.

Source:
Illman, J. (2014) National tech blueprint sets greater role for regulators - Personalised Health and Care 2020: selected recommendations, Health Service Journal, 21 November. 124: 6424; p.13.

Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-91519874572283565032014-11-17T23:24:00.000Z2014-11-17T23:24:17.900ZResponse to: Pros and cons of pulling behavioral and social data into EHRs [Government Health IT]Mike Miliard Editor of Healthcare IT News posted an item:

Pros and cons of pulling behavioral and social data into EHRs
To put my reply in context here is the start of Mike's post:

Should more types of health data figure into electronic health records?

On the one hand, the Institute of Medicine put out a call for doing just that on the grounds that behavioral and social data can benefit population health practices to ultimately improve the care of individual patients. For physicians who already complain that EHRs are burdensome and distract from care delivery, on the other hand, the idea of making electronic records more complex, perhaps even cluttered, will inevitably be unwelcome news. ...

Talk about a work in progress? How long does it take to get this right? Of course health and social care data is always ongoing, as governments change, policy, medicine, local government, social care, technology and society too.

As Mike notes for many physicians the EHR is already burdensome. My context is quite different being nursing, mental health, and crisis-oriented in the community. I've defined small research-based datasets in the past and it is a fascinating pursuit. Trying to have the data defined and reporting ready before the 'door opens'. Doing this retrospectively is no fun at all.

At work when I visit someone in a residential care or nursing home, do I record this as 'home', or 'community' in the absence of the aforementioned categories? Is this ageism?

Is there a digital dividend to come to the physician's aid? Surely increasingly the physical measurements and observations in medicine, surgical... can be automatically captured, disseminated and presented accordingly? Surely, it is possible today to bring in other data as the context changes? If we can autofill on words, we should be able to auto-fill the dataset as context shifts? There are many algorithms out there already 'alive and countin-the-clickin' in the millisecond

IoM report

It seems Mr Miliard is writing about one way to define 'integrated care'?

It isn't just 'public health' though;
it must combine, be inclusive of - 'public mental health'.

The focus of the article is the Institute of Medicine's report:

Capturing Social and Behavioral Domains and Measures in Electronic Health Records: Phase 2

Mike lists eight domains from the report and these are mapped to Hodges' model below:

individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

group

educational attainment, stress, depression
physical activity, stress

social isolation, intimate partner violence (for women of reproductive age)

	financial resource strain,
neighborhood median household income

I've included stress twice as there are at least two forms: anxiety - internal; and environmental - external.Peter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-933785510458928272014-10-18T16:54:00.000+01:002014-10-18T16:54:15.806+01:00Call for Articles: "Social Representations, ICTs and Community Empowerment"Call for Articles for a Special Section of Semiotica, the Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies on the theme of "Social Representations, ICTs and Community Empowerment".

This special section will provide an overview of the use of Social Representations Theory (SRT) (Moscovici, 1961), for empowering local communities, with a specific focus on the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as the Internet, desktop and mobile devices, radios, etc.

Interested researchers are invited to submit an abstract proposal (word file) of about 500 words via e-mail.

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Università della Svizzera italiana, (USI Lugano, Switzerland)
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Additional link [pj]: Wikipedia - Social representation Peter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-49620749511608746362014-09-28T22:34:00.000+01:002014-09-28T22:34:16.581+01:00ERCIM News No. 99 Special theme: "Software Quality"Dear ERCIM News Reader,

ERCIM News No. 99 has just been published at
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en99

Special Theme: "Software Quality"
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en99/special/

And on the occasion of ERCIM's 25th anniversary, we published a selection of articles on the future challenges of ICST:
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Keynote by Willem Jonker, CEO EIT ICT Labs: "The Future of ICT: Blended Life"
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en99/keynote/the-future-of-ict-blended-life

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We are delighted to introduce our new series of  Health Insights. These free to attend events for healthcare professionals feature interactive round table activities, news on how the latest innovations support the health and care community, and best practice experiences from NHS Trust colleagues.

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Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-38902545386674782202014-09-05T22:53:00.000+01:002014-09-05T22:53:11.876+01:00ICN and IHTSDO extend collaboration to advance harmonisation of health terminology
Press Information . Communiqué de presse . Comunicado de prensa

Geneva, Switzerland & Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 September 2014

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) today announced an updated collaboration agreement to advance terminology harmonisation and foster interoperability in health information systems. The new collaboration agreement signed today will be reviewed on completion of the work or in April 2016, whichever is earliest.

The overarching goals of this collaboration are to ensure that nurses worldwide have the tools they need to carry out their jobs effectively, that they are not disenfranchised from the global informatics infrastructure, and that they remain active in the collection of meaningful and useful health information.

As part of the collaboration agreement, ICN, owner of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP), and IHTSDO, owner of SNOMED CT, have agreed to undertake further work that defines the relations between SNOMED CT and ICNP to enable their interoperability in health information systems globally. It builds on work already undertaken to produce an equivalence table for nursing diagnoses.

In the coming years IHTSDO and ICN will focus on two key areas of work: joint publication of a completed equivalence table between SNOMED CT and ICNP for Nursing Diagnoses, and joint publication of a completed equivalence table between SNOMED CT and ICNP for nursing interventions.

"ICN is delighted to extend our collaboration with IHTSDO," said David Benton, ICN's Chief Executive Officer. "This agreement will be of mutual benefit to both organisations as well as to patients and will improve the description and comparison of nursing practice locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

"IHTSDO is pleased to be continuing its collaboration with the ICN", said Jane Millar, Head of Collaboration at IHTSDO. "Our joint work in linking SNOMED CT and ICNP will be of benefit to the nursing profession worldwide to ensure a common understanding and interoperability, and also to support sharing with other members of the healthcare team."

The first collaborative agreement between the two organisations was signed in 2010, and in January 2014 the cooperation was further advanced by the announcement of an equivalence table between ICNP concepts and SNOMED CT concepts.

Notes to the Editor:

ICN and IHTSDO are the developers of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) and SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT), respectively. The ICNP terminology serves a critical role for ICN in representing the domain of nursing practice worldwide, thus providing nurses at all levels with data-based information used for practice, administration, education and research. SNOMED CT is a multidisciplinary healthcare terminology designed to support the entry and retrieval of clinical concepts in electronic record systems and the safe, accurate, and effective exchange of health information.

About ICN:
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations representing the millions of nurses worldwide. Operated by nurses and leading nursing internationally, ICN works to ensure quality care for all and sound health policies globally. (www.icn.ch).

About IHTSDO:
IHTSDO determines global standards for health terms, an essential part of improving the health of humankind. Its experts work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders to ensure that SNOMED CT, its world-leading terminology product, is accepted around the world as the common language for health (www.ihtsdo.org).

My source: Amy L Amherdt   Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-43800851241025641532014-08-30T12:28:00.000+01:002014-08-30T12:28:07.643+01:00In a 'paperless NHS' - let's not forget...The benefits of information technology across all sectors are well recognised when they are realised:

individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

group

creativity

usability

readiness to hand

context

information storage and retrieval, access, efficiency, space, security, information sharing, patient safety, legibility

digital inclusion

cost, savings, governance, reporting (locally, nationally, internationally), policy integration

As we head towards a paperless NHS let's not forget that health care is both an art and a science.

Links:

The Digital Challenge (due for an update?)

Digitising the NHS by 2018 - One Year On. techUK report | March 2014.

What of the impact of the pending election 2015? Time inconsistency problem:
The NHS needs a 'Bank of England moment' HSJ.

drawMD Pediatrics - Patient Education by Drawing on Medical Artwork for Healthcare Providers

Medical-Artist

Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-78574965077827257232014-08-09T13:59:00.000+01:002014-08-09T13:59:33.171+01:00HIFA Voices Database - launched 12 August 2014The HIFA Voices database will bring together the experiential knowledge of HIFA members: more than 12,000 professionals from over 2500 organisations in 170 countries, ranging from senior executives at the World Health Organization in Geneva to community health workers in rural Gambia. Our common vision is a world where every person and every health professional has access to the information they need to protect their own health and the health of those for whom they are responsible. HIFA Voices will be launched on 12 August 2014.

HIFA Voices harnesses the practical expertise of providers and users of healthcare information, together with relevant health information sciences literature. This helps us to understand the healthcare information needs of different users in different contexts and how these needs can be more effectively addressed. Further information about HIFA Voices.

Read the blog about HIFA Voices on the ElsevierConnect website, and the press release from mPowering Frontline Health Workers and Intel Corporation.

We are currently seeking further financial and technical support to enable us to develop HIFA Voices through 2015 and beyond. Please contact us for details.

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Special Theme: "Smart Cities"
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featuring a keynote by Eberhard van der Laan, Mayor of Amsterdam
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en98/keynote-smart-cities

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- Theo Tryfonas, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, UK

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http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ERCIM-81390Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-36300860200489949622014-07-05T15:50:00.001+01:002014-07-05T20:45:31.536+01:00CARE2X Integrated Hospital Information System

In learning we often look in turn for role models, exemplars then even some comparator or examples against which to compare and contrast to understand the context and our own knowledge, skills and potential.

In health and social care information systems it's useful for me to look at what is available in Drupal. A recent find is Care2X with a demo available. There are numerous plans to take these systems further:

 Care3g is seeking funding.

There is also Project Mtuha.

There's a post by Tim Schofield - Helping African hospitals with open source software that describes how the enterprise resource planning system KwaMoja @KwaMoja is being used to provide administration systems for hospitals in Africa.

Even though not on the same scale as commercial hospital systems in the USA and EU ... these are significant software projects compared with my purposes which are educational.

Care2X presentationPeter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-25520012930225943562014-04-17T18:54:00.000+01:002014-04-17T18:54:08.525+01:00IEEE Computer, Special issue on Physical-Cyber-Social ComputingPhysical-Cyber-Social Computing

Final submissions due: 1 September 2014
Publication issue: May/June 2015

Please email the guest editors a brief description of the article you plan to submit by 15 August 2014

Guest Editors: Payam Barnaghi, Manfred Hauswirth, Amit Sheth, and Vivek Singh (ic3-2015 AT computer.org)

Computing, communication, and mobile technologies are among the most influential innovations that shape our lives today. Technology advancements such as mobile devices that reach over half of Earth's population, social networks with more than a billion members, and the rapid growth of Internet-connected devices (the Internet of Things) offer a unique opportunity to collect and communicate information among everybody and everything on the planet. Interacting with the physical world enriches our existing methods of information exchange — sharing our thoughts, communicating social events, and work collaboration via the new dimension of physical computing. This all-encompassing "new world of information" requires that we be able to process extremely large volumes of data to extract knowledge and insights related to our surrounding environment, personal life, and activities, on both local and global scales.

These trends have led to an emergence of physical-cyber-social (PCS) computing, which involves a holistic treatment of data, information, and knowledge from the physical, cyber, and social worlds to integrate, understand, correlate, and provide contextually relevant abstractions to humans and the applications that serve them. PCS computing builds on and significantly extends current progress in cyber-physical, socio-technical, and cyber-social systems. This emerging topic seeks to provide powerful ways to exploit data that are available through various IoT, citizen and social sensing, Web, and open data sources that have either seen or will soon see explosive growth. Providing interoperable information representations and extracting actionable knowledge from the deluge of human and machine sensory data are key issues.

This special issue seeks innovative contributions to computer systems and interaction design, information processing and knowledge engineering, and adaptive solutions associated with PCS computing and the novel applications it enables. Potential topics include:

semantics and information modeling; semantic integration, fusion, and abstraction strategies;

stream processing and reasoning on complex PCS data; real-time feedback control and response systems; human/event/situation-centered views of data streams;

pattern recognition, trend detection, anomaly and event detection, semantic event processing, and inferring actionable knowledge techniques;

spatio-temporal, location-aware, continuous, scalable, and dynamic analysis;

security, privacy, and trust issues in collection, storage, and processing; and

novel and significant PCS applications, deployments, and evaluations in areas including personalized and contextualized information and alerts, health, biomedicine, smart cities, and human/social/economic development.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words, focused on Internet technologies and implementations. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IC's international readership — primarily practicing engineers and academics who are looking for material that introduces new technology and broadens familiarity with current topics. We do not accept white papers, and we discourage strictly theoretical or mathematical papers. To submit a manuscript, please log on to ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:443/ic-cs) to create or access an account, which you can use to log on to IC's Author Center and upload your submission.

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http://ubicomp.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements_ubicomp.org Peter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-2863178084024633242014-03-21T16:48:00.000Z2014-03-21T16:48:25.011ZInformatics in Primary Care - journal

Informatics in Primary Care Journal

On Wednesday I visited HC2014. Having the week off and with the event literally on the doorstep (London in 2015) it was very convenient.

I'd received an email the evening before on the new informatics federation and heard the official announcement in the opening session. My last HC event was 2005, my first 1986 also in Manchester if I remember correctly.

I posted the federation news this morning. On the BCS stand I picked up a copy of the INFORMATICS IN PRIMARY CARE.

This journal is open access. Despite the title and perhaps illustrative of the dependencies within and need to integrate health (and social care) the journal's coverage is broad and inclusive:

We are interested in how computerised medical records can better record the clinical status of patients and can be used to measure the quality, safety and efficiency of health care professionals and organisations – including primary care, hospital, mental health, and social and community care. The scope of the journal also includes integrated care and how genetic data might be used to enhance health care.

I will reflect a little more on HC2014 soon.

Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-63001488418439228482014-03-21T08:24:00.000Z2014-03-21T08:24:10.996ZBCS, UKCHIP and IHRIM announce a new vision for the health informatics profession at HC2014

19 March 2014

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, the UK Council of Health Informatics Professions (UKCHIP) and the Institute of Health Records and Information Management (IHRIM) are working collaboratively to create a new federation for the Informatics profession. The three autonomous bodies will work closely together in a federation to ensure that UK health informatics is recognised as a valued profession.

Justin Whatling, Chair of BCS Health, part of the Chartered Institute for IT, explains: "This is a very exciting moment for health informatics. Today technology has an immense and profound impact on the health and wellbeing of people. Therefore it's time for the profession to mature to meet the increasing demand on our skills and capability. We want health to be an attractive place for informatics professionals from other sectors to come and work, and we want to provide a clear career path and professional development opportunities to retain those already working in health. The federation will help us to achieve this."

The initiative comes as the NHS is under increasing pressure to find and implement new models of health and social care that will provide services closer to people's homes. This requires health professionals to share accurate information securely and confidentially. In addition, the Caldicott 2 Review has introduced a Duty of Care to Share health information. Both of these things have happened at a time when public trust in the NHS' ability to handle personal health information has taken a hit.

The federation will be open to all other informatics professional bodies, the private sector, the home countries and lay representation. It will provide leadership of the overall profession with a single professional register and point of entry for professionals, oversee an agreed regulatory framework with a common code of ethical practice and coordinate access to resources providing a unified set of capabilities for all professional areas of practice.

Read more Peter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-34533498134250791702014-03-01T23:59:00.004Z2014-03-02T00:40:53.376ZDrupalcamp London 2014: The Government Digital Service, Drupal 8 Multilingual features, Twig

Flood hack

DrupalCamp London today got underway with a keynote Delivering User-centred Digital Services by Mark O'Neill from the UK Government Digital Service.

Given the record of public and private sector led IT projects it was refreshing to hear of the GDS's approach being user-centred, the extension of 7 design principles and Mark's previous experience. It's clearly too late for the health care sector to coin and create the Needotron - GDS beat us to it.

Drupal 8 is looking formidable both in its potential and the (learning) stack it presents. Another great session to pick out was - A whole new world for multilingual sites in Drupal 8 by Gábor Hojtsy. The progress here is phenomenal and even though incomplete it is a major achievement and a credit to the Drupal community.

It's humbling as it reminds me to post some introductions to Hodges' model on W2tQ in several languages.

As to being user-centred, the Harmony Forum is a real tease. I know a forum will not moderate itself (is that the new Sorcerer's Apprentice?) and yet time is of the essence. Harmony is one for me to watch - so I'm signed up for the newsletter. Two sessions on Twig and Entities rounded up a busy few days.

This began on Thursday with Cutty Sark, the Royal Greenwich Observatory (learned much from their interactive designs), Turner and the Sea, The British Library - Beautiful Science (60-90 mins ample), and Ibsen's Ghosts at Trafalgar Studios.

I was also able to visit a university yesterday and meet a member of faculty who used Hodges' model many years ago. Here's hoping that some of the materials can be retrieved even though it seems unlikely. I hope to keep in touch with this nursing contact (and not just for the dinner!). I've met several other people here, the Drupal community is another great asset - and with thanks to the sponsors who make these events feasible for many of us.

Output from Needotron

I'll end this post back with Mr O'Neill and the GDS.

I wonder to what extent healthcare figured in the flood deliberations?

It seems that an output from the Needotron may not be so far removed from h2cm?

Happy St David's Day too - in the closing minutes here!

Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-6670748213511399632014-02-23T21:10:00.000Z2014-02-23T21:10:19.922Z18th Annual International Philosophy of Nursing Conference
in association with the International Philosophy of Nursing Society
(IPONS)
September 8th, 9th and 10th, 2014

Hosted by the School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, England, UK

Brave new world?
Health, technology and evidence based practice

Nurses have seen some fundamental changes in the way that healthcare is delivered. Body care is at the centre of nursing practice but the nature of that care has been extended beyond the personal, human-to-human contact, and is increasingly refracted through the medium of technological/scientific interventions. The way that these technologies interact with the human dimension does, and should, require critical analysis.This is particularly the case for nurses who are increasingly expected to adopt methods and approaches that change the nature of the nurse patient relationship. Added to this is the way that clinicians/academics/researchers interact with health care issues, locally as well as globally.

There is an established debate and tension within the evidence based practice literature that illustrates a deep ambivalence about how a holistic approach to clinical practice relates to, enhances, or is undermined by the new health technologies. These include care pathways, systematic reviews of knowledge, the enabling/disabling effects of technology and the putative implication that there is an empiricist and dehumanising process involved in these developments. For example, what happens to the complexity of ethical debates when they are shaped in the form of arguments based on literature reviews? These may wittingly or unwittingly serve as a means of translating complex moral issues into usable clinical regimes that partially mimic meta-analyses. Furthermore we may ask what place narrative knowledge and qualitative experiences may have in this new world of implementation technologies? And how do the new interventions of telemedicine and other policy drivers that emphasise the "hospital-at-home" impact on the ways that nurses carry out health care?

This conference intends to examine these and other issues related to 'Health, technology, and evidence-based practice'.

CONFERENCE DETAILS

Details of the Conference can now be found at the following link:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-mhs/healthsciences/aipnursingconference/index.aspx

These details include the list of Keynote speakers; the venue; a Call for Abstracts; conference registration and accommodation, and transportation. Abstracts of the Keynote speakers and the full Conference Programme will be available soon on the above link.

Any specific queries should be addressed to Dr Stuart Nairn
stuart.nairn AT nottingham.ac.uk

other IPONS posts on W2tQ

Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-52117266385540092042014-02-22T09:37:00.001Z2014-02-22T09:37:50.677ZCall for contributions: 'Interpreting the Information Age' new avenues for research and display
November 24 – 26 2014

Science Museum, London

In autumn 2014, the Science Museum will open a new permanent gallery, Information Age. The gallery will expose, examine and celebrate how information and communication technologies have transformed our lives over the last 200 years. To mark this launch, the Museum is hosting a three day conference which will discuss how the history and material culture of information can be made relevant for today's audiences.

From the development of global telegraph and computer networks, the creation of constellations of satellites that silently orbit our earth, and the growth of radio, telephony and cellular networks; each technology can be understood through a network of people, practices, devices and infrastructure. Approaches which focus on overly technical histories, individual innovation or inevitable progress fail to acknowledge the role of users in the history of technologies and marginalise a majority of readers or visitors who are engaged by human stories and social history. By contrast, Information Age has taken a user-centric approach, not only in the stories and objects selected for display, but in the way the gallery has been designed and developed. Participation with a diverse range of audiences has been at the heart of the process, providing new avenues for research, fresh perspectives on our collections and original ways to interpret the information networks of which we are all part. We invite papers that include insights from researchers, academics, museum professionals, community partners and participants.

The conference structure is proposed to include:

Day 1: New avenues in the history of information and communication technologies

Day 2: Interpreting and displaying the history of information and communication technologies

Day 3: Reflections on the process and practicalities of participatory practice

We are especially interested in papers that address the following themes, but are happy to consider other proposals. Please contact the organisers for guidance.

New avenues in the history of information and communication technologies

From devices to networks: taking a broader approach to the history of information and communication. How has historical analysis expanded our understanding of information networks as inherently social-cultural phenomena? How can museums move beyond displays of devices, to reveal how networks unite people, places and ideas?

User-driven innovation: technological change does not only occur at the moment of invention, but in the hands of users, who adapt and appropriate new technologies. What tools and techniques can we use to reveal previously hidden user stories?

Spaces and places of information: How are institutions celebrating the local and global stories in the history of information and communication technology? What partnerships are being formed to support this?

Interpreting and displaying the history of information and communication technologies

Collecting information: what are the challenges of collecting the material culture of information and communication? How can opening collecting processes to wider audiences enhance understanding, and what are the benefits for both researchers and the wider public?

Displaying information: innovative approaches to the history, present or future of information and communication technologies.

Preserving information: the challenges for museums, libraries and archives in preserving our increasingly digital lives.

Whose story? As institutions strive to tell the story of information and communication technologies from the perspective of users and co-producers, how can we ensure that we are representing a diverse range of voices?

Reflections on the process and practicalities of participatory practice

Breaking down barriers: what approaches are being taken to ensure museum collections are accessible to wider audiences? What interpretation approaches can be adopted?

Collaborative interpretation and design: how are institutions and audiences working together in exhibition development? What are the benefits to the museum, participant and ultimately the gallery visitor? What are the perceived risks to the museum's authority?

Ensuring legacy: how do museums capture the process of participatory practice in a meaningful way? What evaluation methodologies can be adopted? How can museums support partners and participants in the longer-term?

How to contribute
To submit a proposal, please send a 250 abstract outlining the topic of your paper, along with a 100 word biography, to [ research AT sciencemuseum.ac.uk ] by Friday 28th March 2014.

We welcome proposals which could be delivered either as paper presentations or for consideration as panel discussions with other contributors, along with proposals for workshops which practically address the conference themes.

My source: HUMANIST list Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-1316365933157606842014-01-21T19:33:00.001Z2014-01-21T19:33:40.818ZICN and IHTSDO partner to provide a new Informatics Resources for nurses
International Council of Nurses (ICN) and International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO)
partner to provide a new Informatics Resources for nurses

Geneva, Switzerland, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20 January 2014 - The International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) are pleased to announce an equivalency table between the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) concepts and SNOMED CT concepts. The table contains ICNP Diagnosis and Outcomes Statements that have semantic equivalencies with SNOMED CT concepts.

ICNP is an international standard that facilitates the description and comparison of nursing practice locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. The ICNP terminology serves a critical role for ICN in facilitating representation of the domain of nursing practice worldwide to promote evidenced based quality care. ICNP provides nurses with content solutions for electronic health records (EHRs) at all levels to support data-based information for use in practice, administration, education and research. SNOMED CT, a multidisciplinary international healthcare terminology, is designed to support the entry and retrieval of clinical concepts in electronic record systems and the safe, accurate, and effective exchange of health information.

"This equivalency table between ICNP and SNOMED CT is a tangible demonstration of how collaboration among standards development organisations can contribute to improved and standardized documentation of healthcare delivery," noted ICN CEO David Benton. "Greater standardization supports the larger goal of interoperability of systems as well as better understanding of the contributions that each discipline makes to health outcomes and the effective and efficient use of health resources."

"The IHTSDO is pleased to see this work being made available to users internationally and hopes that there will be feedback on its usage over time in supporting the care of individuals on a multidisciplinary basis. Continued collaboration with ICN is important to the IHTSDO going forward, providing a key link to the nursing profession internationally" said Jane Millar, Head of Collaboration at IHTSDO.

This new product advances the collaboration on terminology development agreed between ICN and IHTSDO in their 2010 harmonization agreement by allowing ICN to make the equivalency table available through its website at the ICNP Download page ( http://www.icn.ch/pillarsprograms/icnp-download/ ). Although this table is not formally endorsed by IHTSDO, persons interested in using it should review the terms of the SNOMED CT Affiliate License before downloading ( www.ihtsdo.org/licence.pdf ).

The product can be a useful resource to nurses and healthcare facilities interested in using SNOMED CT for documentation in EHRs and using ICNP to help identify clinically relevant content for use in documentation of nursing care.

An additional product from ICN, the ICNP Technical Implementation Guide, was also recently released with the intent of supporting ICNP users, from vendors to nurses in care delivery settings. When used alongside documentation available on the IHTSDO website ( http://ihtsdo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/doc/ ), the Implementation Guide will be of particular use to those who choose to access and use the ICNP-SNOMED CT Equivalency Table in that it gives details about applications that use ICNP, approaches to implementation, structure and content of ICNP, and technical overview. The ICNP Implementation Guide is available on the ICN website ( www.icn.ch/pillarsprograms/implementing-icnpr/ ).

My source: Amy L Amherdt, icn-ehealthPeter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-37757528146171552322014-01-07T08:01:00.001Z2014-01-07T08:01:50.892ZESRC PhD North West Doctoral Training Centre (NWDTC) CASE Studentships 2014: The spatial and social dynamics of public inclusion for people with dementia & Masters HI SwedenThe Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University offers an exciting opportunity for an ESRC funded +3 collaborative studentship for PhD research: The spatial and social dynamics of public inclusion for people with dementia

Suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply for this fully-funded three-year PhD CASE studentship which is a collaboration between the Centre for Ageing Research, at Lancaster University, and AgeUK Lancashire. The studentship covers full fees plus a Basic Maintenance Grant (£14,421 p.a.). The student will receive a small contribution for research costs.

The CASE studentship will draw on innovative participatory mixed methods to assess the impact of a range of dementia friendly community initiatives to explore how people with dementia experience social and spatial inclusion, across personal and public spaces. The research offers an opportunity to engage with important policy initiatives and how they impact upon people's lives. The successful applicant will also benefit from the work placement opportunity within AgeUK Lancashire.

The studentship will be supervised by a team lead by Dr Katherine Froggatt and Professor Christine Milligan at Lancaster University and Mrs Diane Armstrong, Dementia Support Coordinator at AgeUK Lancashire.

Eligible candidates will be UK/EU honours graduate students with a good 2.1 from a recognised University, who show evidence of exceptional ability; they must have completed research methods training as part of an ESRC recognised Masters (or demonstrate research training to an equivalent standard) in a relevant health and social sciences discipline. Students who are currently undertaking a Masters degree (or equivalent) and are expecting to graduate during the 2013-14 academic session are also eligible to apply. Candidates should demonstrate a committed interest and experience in the field of dementia ageing research, preferably in community contexts.

Candidates must satisfy the ESRC's academic and residential eligibility requirements and be UK or EU citizens who have been resident in the UK for three years. Further information on eligibility can be downloaded from the ESRC web site:
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/postgradfunding/foindex.asp

For further information contact Dr Katherine Froggatt: k.froggatt AT lancaster.ac.uk

To apply please submit the following documents electronically, by 5.00pm Thursday February 13th 2014, to Dr Katherine Froggatt: k.froggatt AT lancaster.ac.uk with 'ESRC CASE studentship' in the subject line:

An up-to-date CV: including two named referees (one of whom should be your most recent academic tutor/supervisor); the applicant will be expected to have approached their referees to arrange for references (including anticipated grade if Masters is ongoing) in advance of shortlisting.

A letter of application (not exceeding 2 pages) outlining your suitability for the CASE studentship and how you would anticipate approaching the research.

A copy of your first degree and Master's degree transcripts.

Shortlisted candidates should be available for interview on February 21st 2014

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https://www.universityadmissions.se/intl/search?period=HT_2014&publishers=ki&freeText=Joint+Master%27s+Programme+in+Health+Informatics&courseProgram=programs&level=advanced Peter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-61146250500579558162014-01-01T13:15:00.000Z2014-01-01T22:48:59.499ZBook review: "Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge" (long book - long review)
Happy New Year to everyone!

Last spring I requested a book for review and received three c/o and with thanks to Jones & Bartlett Learning Nursing. Finally, I've picked up the second - and about time it seems - as on this first day of 2014 the publishers are planning the 3rd edition. This book provided a break from virtual matters being a door-stop of a book; 538 pages, excluding abbreviations, glossary and index. In addition to this physical rendering the publishers emphasize an online presence for this and other books. Inside the cover there is a card with an access code to unlock the companion website for online resources for readers, students and lecturers. The account setup is straightforward and there are additional student exercises beyond those in the book.

Informatics is by definition a challenge for authors and publishers. Even though published in 2011 - 2012 time is at work. From the outset then the team involved in this text are to be congratulated on what is a monumental task in scale and time.

The foundation of knowledge in the title refers to the adopted conceptual framework - the foundation of knowledge model, which is illustrated at the start of the book's sections and especially section I on the building blocks of nursing informatics.

The foundation of knowledge model was itself quite a hook for me.

The model includes bits, bytes, data and information and from this arise:

knowledge acquisition

knowledge processing

knowledge generation

and knowledge dissemination

- with all of these influenced by and influencing feedback (there is an illustration in the sample chapter). The model describes people as information systems. Although the diagram presents a structure for the model, and it fits this informatics context very well and provides a link throughout the book it is not convincing in terms of subjects, agents, and knowledge disciplines. Admittedly the foundation of knowledge model is high level like Hodges' model. Similarly, it is not prescriptive in terms of how events, phenomena are characterised. Data, information, knowledge and wisdom are however, the most fuzzy of concepts and subject to ongoing philosophical debate. I'll reflect a little more on this later. As already noted the model works here and I see online that a couple of students (and no doubt a great many more) have utilised the model in e-portfolios.

Each chapter has a listing of key terms, which are highlighted in the text. There are reflective questions at the end of each chapters. Chapters are concise, well referenced across various media and are all accessible and evident of a great editorship. There are a couple of longer treatments of certain and well chosen topics. Within chapters there are brief diversions in boxes on a related theme, for example in chapter 3, box 3.2 on 'storage capacities'. I'd almost forgotten about EPROM and RAM, even though I used to purchase computer programs on EPROMS and ROMS in the 90s. Although abbreviations still abound, these abbreviations have become rather transparent now - and may say more about the generational scope of the authors - including this one? If these are going to be included then where is 'GPU', 'SSD' …? This is a difficult balance to strike, but mention of these struck me as antiquated and date the text. ('GPU' is hardly new - 1998 c/o Nvidia)

With two major companies referred to early on, open source is explained on page 43 and in the examples of software programs that are listed. The book is courageous in several respects introducing the model, listing software and specific technology examples, some of which can be brief in terms of market longevity. The emergence of the cloud is discussed and provides a current flavour, as with usability ('UX'). Although the authors are clearly leaders and advocates for nursing informatics and the technologic, the enthusiasm is tempered.

The limits and complexity of AI artificial intelligence are raised in addition to the revolutionary progress. Chapter 4 on cognitive informatics I found personally fascinating, as it reassures me about my interest in the potential of combining conceptual spaces, threshold concepts with Hodges' model. As a result I previously posted items from the book about cognitive informatics and another relating Beauchamp and Childress's four principles of health care ethics to Hodges' model.

Chapter 5 continues the consideration of the limits and challenges posed by technology in exploring the theoretical approaches to health care ethics. The standards for e-health ethics will now be tested with the fate of the .health domain (deliberated online at HIFA2015 to follow...). I wonder if this debate will figure in the 3rd edition? Clearly there are implications for the governance of such a domain. As the chapter points out many ethical e-health standards are voluntary.

As an individual and a reviewer of book with international scope and a discipline with international global aspirations you are acutely aware of your parochial situation. When I look at the UK (Northwest England!) and nursing informatics it seems, with some exceptions to have failed to make a mark in nursing. Yes, colleagues and I use an electronic health record, but there is so much more that could be provided in terms of purposes, functionality and reports. The majority of student nurses I speak to do not seem to be primed let alone tutored for the wider informatics world they will enter as practitioners. So much more that could be done with mobile technology, caseload management tools, research tools. Perhaps this is why as I read of - the use of decision support systems and expert systems (p.77) – I thought "Get real!". How accessible are such tools to the majority of nurses? Speaking from Wigan Pier at least, if it is 'nursing informatics' you seek then you must be westward bound. It appears there is quite a difference in the esteem of nursing informatics in the USA and UK? - and my review reflects this. Jocularity aside there are two serious points here.

1. The book is clearly USA centric, but it really is relevant to readers elsewhere (I thought there might be a problem registering on the website, but there was no .
2. The other point concerns activism.

When there is an opportunity should we advocate for nursing? Is there scope for this within a nursing informatics text? Even in 'developed' nations we should take nothing for granted be that the UK - rickets, TB, sexually transmitted diseases in older adults, obesity; or the United States with the potential impact of climate change and health inequality (MacKenzie, 2013, America's hidden epidemic of tropical diseases). The complexity of nursing and health is also apparent while reading that informatics can serve to check compliance with antibiotic regimes, you simultaneously reflect on the need to reduce the general prescribing of antibiotics and the correct administration and management when they are utilized.

My interest in and exposure to informatics and the humanistic-mechanistic axis within Hodges' model brought me to the socio-technical literature. Even though socio-technical aspects of nursing and nursing informatics abound implicitly in the book (chapter 6, page 100 and elsewhere – chapter 16) 'sociotechnical' or 'socio-technical' does not have a place in the index. Although they rarely come across it – hence my thoughts above – I explain something of classification and coding to the student nurses who visit our team. Chapter 7 is a very informative contribution on this subject by one of several international contributors (all listed at the book's start). How can nursing informatics make an impact if nursing students are not aware of the existence of nursing terminologies and approaches – enumerative and ontological - to the same? Nurses should be aware of the international standards associated with their profession - nursing terminologies included. Chapter 8 on nursing roles, competencies and skills prompted me to wonder about other forms of informatics and to what extent there can (should) be dialogue between these other disciplines?

In, Information and Knowledge needs of nurses in the 21st century (chapter 9), as an individual practitioner you are always situated (p.531) in a local nursing experience. I think this is where the model needs to be extended to facilitate the incorporation of local, global and glocal perspectives. Surely informatic's role as the latest technical means to communicate across a diaspora and it seems create a reverse diaspora through online communities and virtual worlds is worthy of a political stance? Global initiatives such as Health Information for All 2015 (what year is it next and still so much to do...) and other groups (maternal and infant care) need nursing's support and this extended information-informatics awareness (wisdom!) might also pay local and national dividends?

Chapter 10 is lengthy as befits legislative matters which nevertheless maintain the readable tone, clearly there is an ongoing evaluation by systems suppliers and users on the potential of the Cloud (Chapter 17). Chapter 11 was a nice surprise and the impact of which I have already referred to in e-portfolios. Individuals act as their own portal – p.187. This is a subject that (I hope) will occupy me for the next couple of years. The use of e-media by nurses for reflective commentary using web publishing tools is addressed very well. Having just ordered a second hand copy of Etienne Wenger's book on communities of practice I find this discussed here:

In the future it is hoped that the use of communities of practice in nursing will grow beyond knowledge sharing and promote more knowledge discovery and sense making. p.189.
I'm not sure if e-portfolios have affected the EU populace with the rapidity and extent expected (by 2010), but there is a series of ongoing conferences dedicated to the cause. In the 1990s and early 2000s you could not miss the emphasis on benefits realization. If this concept has had its day what exactly happened? (There is no longer a need to prove the worth, potential of the computer at the bedside, nurses station.) We should still focus on outcomes as noted in several chapters.

The sections also take on a practical – application focus across administration and nursing functions. Open source is further examined p.212. If SQL is mentioned would it help to acknowledge the development of noSQL approaches? Memory and processing power (for indexing) are less of a constraint on systems now. There is another challenge presented to editors: is 2004 really a 'recent' study? 'Recent' and its synonyms 'currently' need to be checked throughout the book and revised accordingly. The same applies to references to demographics and changes in nursing numbers (p.320-321). The trends in the numbers are established and remain, but perhaps there are more up-to-date sources? Throughout the book there are also case studies and pointers to research that provide practical and personal insights to the subject at hand.

While the context is nursing and informatics I think the discussion on 'health literacy' requires a critical review. It seems that health literacy may be being construed as synonymous with health technology literacy, computer and information literacy which are also noted in the text. There is admittedly a great deal of overlap.

'Health literacy' needs to be considered before a specific health problem arises – it is too late then. Health literacy does not mean, should not be equated with the deployment and use of e-tech applied to people with diabetes, coronary heart disease. Is this specific health education aimed at self-care, relapse prevention, staying well? Is health literacy concerned with positive health?

http://www.healthliteracy.org.uk/why-it-is-important

I'm sure the authors – editors are only too aware of this but this understanding of the wider context of 'health literacy' as a field of research and practice is not conveyed at present. I also don't necessarily see a wiki as a search tool, yes you can search a wiki but it is a type of repository and as such the effectiveness of a search must depend on the contributions made and the preceding searches. Perhaps a dedicated wiki could become a form e-grey literature?

A highpoint for this reviewer was to read: Learning is a multispatial function, … (p.406). It certainly is. The discussion on creating learning resources is an excellent introduction, especially on using the electronic health record as the learning resource.

In considering the future chapter 29 does not explicitly utilize the framework of knowledge. This may provide an opportunity to extend the framework to more readily integrate bio-psychosocial-political and spiritual perspectives through time. The framework of knowledge within informatics is a great resource. As mentioned this drew my interest to the book, in 1996 I sought to relate informatics concepts to nursing and mental health (redundancy, entropy.... see bibliography). Whatever the differences between the USA and UK nursing informatics the framework might benefit from a way to integrate context, specific concepts and practices, self-care, interprofessional education and wisdom.

This is a great book, one that is also courageous in its scope and execution. The third edition will be very well worth not just purchasing, but applying. Thanks again to Jones & Bartlett Learning for this copy.

MacKenzie, D. (2013). America's hidden epidemic of tropical diseases, New Scientist. 11 December 2013, 2947.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029473.200-americas-hidden-epidemic-of-tropical-diseases.html?full=true

McGonigle, D., Mastrian, K.G. (2012) Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Second Edition. Jones & Bartlett Learning, Burlington, MA.
Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-16116231542299595292013-12-17T00:17:00.001Z2013-12-17T00:17:50.152ZCognitive Informatics and other forms?Over the past couple of months I've posted on topics that include an example of Hodges' model related to the post's particular theme. In McGonigle and Mastrian's Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Second Edition (2012) on page 63 the editors cite Wang (2003):

Cognitive informatics attempts to solve problems in two connected areas in a bidirectional and multidisciplinary approach. In one direction, CI uses informatics and computing techniques to investigate cognitive science problems, such as memory, learning and reasoning; in the other direction, CI uses cognitive theories to investigate problems in informatics, computing and software engineering (p.120).

I will leave it to you to consider the INTRA-INTERPERSONAL and SCIENCES domains, and not (just) how Wang's cognitive informatics 'fits' within Hodges' model, but what of the many other informatics fields. Here they seem like stepping stones, but taken together where do they lead to, from, ... about ...?

Wang, Y. (2003), Cognitive Informatics: A New Transdisciplinary Research Field, Brain and Mind: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy, Vol.4, No.2. pp.115-127. Peter Joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-2352589204698309762013-12-14T10:21:00.000Z2013-12-14T10:33:27.827ZH2cm - Beauchamp and Childress (1994) four principles of healthcare ethicsI'm clearing the decks of books at the moment, one of which is McGonigle and Mastrian's Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Second Edition (2012). I notice a 3rd edition is in preparation.

A review will follow, but in chapter 5 on Ethical Applications of Informatics on page 73 (pb.) the four principles healthcare ethics of Beauchamp and Childress (1994) are mentioned in a very concise, informative discussion.

Although the exercise that follows involves 'putting concepts in boxes', doing so helps us to see beyond the boxes, to see the links between.

Although harm takes several forms it is physical harm (for nonmaleficence) that is most commonly thought of. This is the ethics concerning an individual so why have I placed beneficence in the sociology domain? Justice should be straight forward, but only if reinforced by law, and then only if that law is exercised. Autonomy should be straight forward. I must have the mental capacity, the insight to have choices. In the eyes of others these choices may be rationale or irrational. Although justice is place in the political (group / population) domain, rights are ascribed to individuals. This is useful property of Hodges' model the way that the individual and their mental life are diametrically placed (opposed?) and linked. It is others who are having determine the ethics of a given case, evaluating what is in the person's best interests; also having to take into account any advanced directives, or living wills.

What do you think? If you have some comments, can improve this or feel there is a correspondence here please let me know.

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual

autonomy	 nonmaleficence

beneficence	justice

group - population

Respect for autonomy - the patient has the right to refuse or choose their treatment. (Voluntas aegroti suprema lex.)

Beneficence - a practitioner should act in the best interest of the patient. (Salus aegroti suprema lex.)

Non-maleficence - "first, do no harm" (primum non nocere).

Justice - concerns the distribution of scarce health resources, and the decision of who gets what treatment (fairness and equality).

Above text:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ethics

Peter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-19097560595405436202013-11-20T17:04:00.002Z2013-11-20T17:04:18.818Z Consultation on the proposed withdrawal of the SNOMED CT national care planning contentIn addition to responding myself, I notice on the actual consultation page on 'Citizen Space' there is an option to share this consultation.

Dear Peter,

You are registered for the care planning content via the HSCIC Technology Reference data Update Distribution website.

The national Care Planning Content is designed for use to support care planning functionality across health and social care. This functionality crosses many professions/sectors which may have differing descriptions for a care plan in the traditional health record (e.g. treatment plans, birthing plans, support plans, intervention plans or care order sets). The content can support the interoperation of care plans across boundaries and paper based care plans based on the pack have also been used successfully to gain greater familiarity with structured terminology (SNOMED CT).

More details at: http://www.infostandards.org/careplanning

The absence of a declared owner or sponsor for this product means that we are proposing to withdraw it and are keen to hear views and understand the impact of not maintaining this content and its associated services.

We have a number of questions to determine how information Standards could best support the development of a standard for care planning, the consultation can be found at:

https://consultations.infostandards.org/bdea/snomed-ct-care-planning/consult_view

- and we would value and encourage your feedback on this proposal.

If you have any questions regarding the above you can contact us by sending an e-mail to information.standards AT hscic.gov.uk. This is the preferred form of communication.

You can also telephone for advice and support. Our telephone number is +44 845 13 00 114
We are available weekdays from 9am to 5pm.

Regards
The TRUD support team
Health and Social Care Information CentrePeter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-73047604403522637382013-10-27T18:35:00.001Z2013-10-27T18:35:51.772ZPositioning Nursing in a Digital World. RCN eHealth Survey 2012 Report

Abstract:

Commissioned by the RCN, this eHealth survey explores the knowledge and experiences of nursing staff in relation to current eHealth developments, together with their attitudes to new and emerging uses of technology in health and social care. The aims of the 2012 survey were to identify the readiness of nursing staff to participate in eHealth, to understand the barriers that prevent nursing staff from benefiting from information and communications technology, and to ascertain what progress has been made since the previous RCN eHealth survey in 2010.

Image source: http://www.gerrybolger.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/image1.jpg Peter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-53216114857986587342013-10-09T07:09:00.001+01:002013-10-09T07:09:15.657+01:00Infostandards.org: HSCIC supports the information standards community
Dear Peter,

You may have seen the publicity this week regarding the launch of a new website, www.infostandards.org, developed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, working with the Department of Health, NHS England and other commissioning partners.

Infostandsards.org has been developed to support information standards professionals across health and social care. The site provides a single place where all information standards can be located, along with valuable supporting material, such as e-learning, implementation guidance and case studies. It also enables users of the site to become active participants in the development and appraisal of standards, by providing the means to share material, draw on each others' experiences and engage in discussions about existing and potential future standards.

TRUD is pleased to support this new venture and recognises the importance of engaging with information standards professionals across health and social care. The site provides a single place where all information standards can be accessed, along with valuable supporting materials, such as e-learning, implementation guidance and case studies. It also enables users of the site to share material, draw on each other's experiences and engage in discussions about existing and potential future standards, collections and extractions.

The site's scope and design will evolve continually to meet the needs and preferences of the community, so we encourage you to become active users and help shape its future development. It is the intention that the site will be an integral part of the assurance process for information standards and collections, details of which will be made available on the site in due course.

Dr Ken Lunn, Director of Information Standards Delivery, said:

"We have supported the creation of the infostandards.org website because openness and increased engagement with end users can only improve the development, delivery and adoption of effective information standards. Standards are essential to the delivery of improved, digitally enabled health and care services and by collaborating with the wider community we can tackle together the challenges we all face. I look forward to seeing how the site will be used by the community."
In support of implementation of the NHS dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d) the Pharmacy Terminology team are currently updating some of the dm+d implementation guidance. Following feedback from the community a starter guide to dm+d providing an overview of dm+d, an explanation of the Standard, how it relates to the SNOMED CT UK Drug Extension and some fundamentals on content, structure and the release itself has been drafted and is available for comment on infostandards.org.

http://www.infostandards.org/topic/prescribing/dmd-draft-user-guide-available-for-review

The guidance is not currently ready for formal consultation but we would value your input at this juncture to see if the contents are useful and useable.

Questions about www.infostandards.org can be sent to info.standards AT hscic.gov.uk and via twitter where you can follow us @infostandards

Regards

The TRUD support team
Health and Social Care Information Centre
Peter Joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609068.post-86079152558239302992013-09-21T18:06:00.002+01:002013-09-29T20:13:43.894+01:00Health 2.0 Europe 2013: Nurses, registration and £££This year I've really enjoyed the Health 2.0 Manchester chapter meetings and there's some great evening sessions to follow this northern autumn. In June as I posted on W2tQ I also spent a weekend at the NW Health Hack in Knutsford.

For several months European Health 2.0 conference has been publicized at the Manchester meetings. I was keen to attend until I saw the registration fee even with a 15% reduction. The fee increased yesterday too as I was reminded by Pascal Lardier on twitter:

@pascal_lardier 19 Sep
Today is the last day to pay less for your ticket to @Health2eu Register here: http://www.health2con.com/events/health-2-0-europe-2013-registration/ … <s>#</s>health2con <s>#</s>nhssm <s>#</s>hcsmeu
I retweeted the above and replied to Pascal and Health2eu, telling them what they already know - Health 2.0 rocks! but adding that I thought few nurses would be able to afford the registration fee.

NW Health Hack was a success for me (in addition to our group coming 3rd) because it was free, apart that is from driving there over the weekend on my days off (thanks again to all the sponsors). As the NHS is trying to save money I've also taken some unpaid leave this year.

NHS nurses, like many public sector groups have effectively had a pay cut these past few years. There are other general challenges:

Are those nurses who might attend already 'onboard'?

Does nursing engagement itself need a health check (what is 'clinical engagement' now)?

Much was made of achieving clinical engagement in previous NHS IT projects. How can clinical engagement that reaches nurses be assured now?

If (technical) innovation is to be a constant stream, please don't leave the nurses on an island: they can set sail too.

Are nurses, like the one writing this, tainted, having been sat on the fence (health care || ICT) for too long?

Once projects are established how can nurses, patients and carers stay the course and keep in touch and engaged?

As 'NHS clinicians' can nurses participate in initiatives such as the forthcoming Code4Health, or will operational constraints limit their involvement?

How are the socio-technical aspects and outcomes measured (hospital vs. home personal use vs. self-care...) ?

Is there a golden ratio for the mix of delegates?

If there's a strategic partner involved where's the strategy?

Pascal sliced through my query and many of the points above:

Pascal Lardier @pascal_lardier   19 Sep
- then they should reach out to me!

So if the World Wide Health 2.0 conferences are of interest to you, do as Pascal suggests. New communities can provide new opportunities. Don't just help make your day, help make tomorrow too.

In 2012 the NHS employed 146,075 doctors, 369,868 qualified nursing staff, and 37,314 managers.
http://www.nhsconfed.org/priorities/political-engagement/Pages/NHS-statistics.aspx#staff

Additional notes 29 Sept:

Health 2.0 MCR @H20MCR

@h2cm patients are also asking how can @Health2eu Health 2.0 Europe conference be made more accessible for them @pascal_lardier?

Pascal Lardier @pascal_lardier

@H20MCR @h2cm @Health2eu @pascal_lardier they should email me pascal AT health2con.com there is a FREE reg code for them.
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