Seeing the lights in research with our heads in the clouds
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
After more than four weeks of travel, conferences and events it is good to return home. CENSEMaking’s sabbatical is
Read moreSocial Media and Health: Leaders(hip) and Followers(hip)
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.
Read moreSystems Thinking, eHealth and Changing Public Health
Tomorrow is my last class in CHL 5804: Health Behaviour Change for the 2010 year. Like every year, it was
Read moreThe Face-to-Face Complexity of eHealth & Knowledge Exchange
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.
Read moreSocial Media / Social Activism Redux: Can we Learn from Behaviour Change Theories?
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.
Read moreSystems (Science): Sexy and Not So Much
Recently I was discussing what I do with someone relatively unfamiliar to my research, yet in the same field and
Read moreThe Lady Gaga – mHealth Connection
mHealth (mobile health) has a remarkable number of similarities to Lady Gaga. In this post, I point them out.
Read moreeHealth / mHealth And Privacy Will Never Coexist
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.
Read moreCreating the Future Through Systems-Design Thinking
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.
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