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Seeing the lights in research with our heads in the clouds

July 11, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 24 Views communications, complexity, eHealth, evaluation, medicine, public health, research, social innovation, social media

Some fields stagnate because they fail to take the bold steps into the unknown by taking chances and proposing new

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Returning Home

July 6, 2013July 6, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 8 Views Canada, design, eHealth, equity, evaluation, Finland, innovation, Italy, public eHealth

After more than four weeks of travel, conferences and events it is good to return home. CENSEMaking’s sabbatical is

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Social Media and Health: Leaders(hip) and Followers(hip)

May 18, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 11 Views

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.

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Systems Thinking, eHealth and Changing Public Health

December 2, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 8 Views education, eHealth, public health, systems thinking, university

Tomorrow is my last class in CHL 5804: Health Behaviour Change for the 2010 year. Like every year, it was

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The Face-to-Face Complexity of eHealth & Knowledge Exchange

November 24, 2010November 24, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 7 Views community organizing, complexity, CoNEKTR model, eHealth, innovation, knowledge translation, public eHealth, public health, social media, systems thinking

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.