There is no doubt that one of the strengths of openEHR is the activity and connectedness within the openEHR community. I’m also intrigued by the social networking tools that have arisen in recent years.
So, slightly orthogonal to the usual list content and at the risk of preaching to those who are far more advanced than I, thought I might share some tools and sites that I’ve been exploring - with the intent to connect openEHR community members in other ways and to disseminate information about openEHR more broadly:
Twitter - using Twitter Search - http://search.twitter.com/ - or one of the many Twitter-related applications:
Search for a single word or phrase eg ‘openEHR’ to find any twitter with ‘openEHR’ in the text - [BEWARE: I’ve been tweeting a bit in the past couple of days about CKM ;-)]
Search for ongoing tagged conversations by prefixing a keyword with a #. Some of the ones I have been looking at recently include:
#EHR OR #EMR OR #PHR
#HealthIT OR #HealthcareIT
#HealthVault OR ‘Google Health’- Search for significant HealthIT-related twittering individuals, such as:
@jhalamka
@davidblumenthal - although he’s not saying much!
If you have other ideas, I’d love to know.
I’m not sure where this leads us (if anywhere) but disruptive technologies start in small ways, so at least worth exploring…
For twitter newbies, do join and use twitter, it is a really useful way of sharing ideas and information and participating in the global community.There are a lot of healthcare tweeps on twitter, once you pick up the trail you will soon find others. Some post a lost, some very little. Some will mix their ordinary life postings with their healthcare-related tweets.
Download a useful app to help filter your twitter feed. @mashable has some recommendations on his website guide to social media http://mashable.com/. I use Tweetdeck and Twibble, but there are many others inclusing Twitterfox.
I look forward to tweeting you in the near future,
Pauline Sweetman
(twitter name = @psweetman)
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Business Process Lead, Prescribing and Medicines Management,
NHS London Programme for IT,
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Twitter - using Twitter Search - http://search.twitter.com/ - or one of the many Twitter-related applications:
Search for a single word or phrase eg ‘openEHR’ to find any twitter with ‘openEHR’ in the text - [BEWARE: I’ve been tweeting a bit in the past couple of days about CKM ;-)]
Search for ongoing tagged conversations by prefixing a keyword with a #. Some of the ones I have been looking at recently include:
#EHR OR #EMR OR #PHR
#HealthIT OR #HealthcareIT
#HealthVault OR ‘Google Health’
Search for significant HealthIT-related twittering individuals, such as:
@jhalamka
@davidblumenthal - although he’s not saying much!
If you have other ideas, I’d love to know.
I’m not sure where this leads us (if anywhere) but disruptive technologies start in small ways, so at least worth exploring…
Regards
Heather
Dr Heather Leslie
MBBS FRACGP FACHI
Director of Clinical Modelling
Ocean Informatics<http://www.oceaninformatics.com/>
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Skype - heatherleslie
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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;-)
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.
