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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 326 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 390 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.

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Social Media / Social Activism Redux: Can we Learn from Behaviour Change Theories?

October 13, 2010October 13, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 531 Views eHealth, health behaviour change, health communications, psychology, public health, social media, Twitter

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.

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Systems (Science): Sexy and Not So Much

September 9, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 346 Views academia, complexity, design thinking, eHealth, gambling, innovation, knowledge translation, mhealth, public health, systems thinking

Recently I was discussing what I do with someone relatively unfamiliar to my research, yet in the same field and

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The Lady Gaga – mHealth Connection

August 28, 2010May 25, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 445 Views design, eHealth, innovation, Lady Gaga, marketing, mhealth, social media

mHealth (mobile health) has a remarkable number of similarities to Lady Gaga. In this post, I point them out.

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eHealth / mHealth And Privacy Will Never Coexist

August 21, 2010August 22, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 666 Views eHealth, information technology, mhealth, mobile phones, privacy, security, social media

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.

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