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Seeing the lights in research with our heads in the clouds
Posted on July 11, 2014 3 Comments
Some fields stagnate because they fail to take the bold steps into the unknown by taking chances and proposing new ideas because the research isn’t there to guide it while social innovation has a different twist on the problem: it has plenty of ideas, but little research to support those ideas. Unless the ideas and […]
Returning Home
Posted on July 6, 2013
After more than four weeks of travel, conferences and events it is good to return home. CENSEMaking’s sabbatical is over and over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing the insights gained from a brief, but deep immersion into of the biggest design cultures in the world (Italy and Finland) and spending time exploring […]
Social Media and Health: Leaders(hip) and Followers(hip)
Posted on May 18, 2012 2 Comments
Systems thinking, design thinking, developmental evaluation, creativity, networks and innovation: these are the keywords for health in the coming years. They are as author Eric Topol calls the dawning of the creative destruction of medicine. The public is already using social media for health and now the time has come for health (care, promotion and protection) systems to get on board and make the changes necessary to join them.
Systems Thinking, eHealth and Changing Public Health
Posted on December 2, 2010
Tomorrow is my last class in CHL 5804: Health Behaviour Change for the 2010 year. Like every year, it was filled with the expected, unexpected and everything in between. I love teaching the course and interacting with about 30 graduate students from different disciplines, research backgrounds and educational levels. And while we often don’t admit […]
The Face-to-Face Complexity of eHealth & Knowledge Exchange
Posted on November 24, 2010 2 Comments
Using complexity science principles to guide the process and powered by social media and face-to-face engagement, the power to take what we know, contextualize it, and transform it into something we can act on seems to me the best way forward in dealing with problems of chronic disease that are so knotted and pervasive, yet demand rapid responses.
Social Media / Social Activism Redux: Can we Learn from Behaviour Change Theories?
Posted on October 13, 2010 3 Comments
The revolution most likely will be Tweeted, but whether that is the cause or the consequence is why research on social media and social activism is needed. Otherwise, we will wind up with another chicken and egg problem.
Systems (Science): Sexy and Not So Much
Posted on September 9, 2010 1 Comment
Recently I was discussing what I do with someone relatively unfamiliar to my research, yet in the same field and I described my interest in systems thinking, knowledge translation, and eHealth and how they go together. Somehow in the conversation the term “sexy” was used to describe these fields along with “hot” and “upcoming”. It’s […]
The Lady Gaga – mHealth Connection
Posted on August 28, 2010 4 Comments
mHealth (mobile health) has a remarkable number of similarities to Lady Gaga. In this post, I point them out.
eHealth / mHealth And Privacy Will Never Coexist
Posted on August 21, 2010 2 Comments
A recent podcast from Twist Image unleashed a whole line of thinking in me about privacy and our electronic tools and has led me to conclude that eHealth and privacy cannot and will not ever coexist.
Creating the Future Through Systems-Design Thinking
Posted on August 20, 2010
A recent World Bank post on the future of governments in design thinking spurred some of my own thoughts on how it links with systems thinking.
