Social Media in Clinical Practice
Bertalan Meskó 2013
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Pervasive Health Knowledge Management
Rajeev K. Bali • Indrit Troshani Steve Goldberg • NilminiWickramasinghe Editors 2013 The healthcare delivery system in the United States is in crisis as noted by several scholars and practitioners. Runaway expenditures and problems with access and affordability of care are plaguing the industry. Several chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension consume a disproportionate slice of healthcare […]
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Stephen Goundrey-Smith 2013
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Margunn Aanestad • Miria Grisot Ole Hanseth • Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou Editors 2017 Working with the Installed Base
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Nancy M. Lorenzi Joan S. Ash Jonathan Einbinder Wendy McPhee Laura Einbinder Editors 2005 Thorough understanding of, and careful attention to, people and organizational issues are essential for successful healthcare information technology initiatives. Despite this, very few case studies about healthcare information technology—either successes or failures—have been published.
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James E. Demetriades Robert M. Kolodner Gary A. Christopherson Editors 2005 Ideas and trends can be as contagious as viruses. Seemingly unrelated, small events can mount to epidemic proportions, and “the slightest push” in “just the right place” will change everything. This is what Malcolm Gladwell (2000) calls the Tipping Point, a unique moment “when everything can change […]
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Scott M. Strayer Peter L. Reynolds Mark H. Ebell Editors 2005 A Practical Guide for Clinicians Have you ever wanted to calculate the predicted peak flow for one of your asthmatic patients without spending valuable minutes searching for that confounded little slide rule gizmo? How about being able to enter your patient’s risk factors and cholesterol number, and have […]
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R. Grant Steen 2009 Assessing the Flynn Effect As critics will note, psychometric tests are deeply flawed. Person-to-person differences in performance on a psychometric test are not informative about many things of great interest. An intelligence quotient (IQ) cannot characterize creativity or wisdom or artistic ability or other forms of specialized knowledge.
Continue reading →Thiamine Deficiency and Associated Clinical Disorders
David W. McCandless 2009 The past 20 years have seen remarkable advances in neuroscience, neurology, imaging techniques, and diagnostic strategies. These advances have been successfully applied to many different diseases, including thiamine deficiency and associated clinical disorders. Syndromes such as beriberi, Wernicke’s disease, Leigh’s disease, African Seasonal Ataxia, and various inherited ataxias have all benefited from improved scientific approaches.
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Vinoth Jagaroo 2009 The idea for this book was conceived over many years and through many influences. The fields of neuropsychology, general neuroscience, and information technology were certainly among the main influences. It was in particular an unusual context in which I was on the one hand exposed to academic and clinical neuropsychology and on the other to information […]
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