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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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Libraries, Literacy and the Learning Imperative

January 9, 2010May 25, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 266 Views education, information technology, learning, libraries, literacy

Libraries have an opportunity to advance literacy now as much as ever, but as some argue, the time has come to expand that mandate to helping people take the intellectual initiative.

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eHealth Deja Vu All Over Again

September 29, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 257 Views education, eHealth, health behaviour change, health promotion, information technology, innovation, learning, public eHealth, public health, technology, tobacco control, Web-assisted tobacco interventions

It took more than 15 years for public eHealth approaches like using the Web for tobacco control to take hold, in large part because there wasn’t the ‘evidence’. In the age of social media, are we doomed to see history repeat itself? This post looks at how in the area of social media education and adoption, it’s deja vu all over again.

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eHealth and the Means-Ends Problem

September 19, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 290 Views eHealth, Facebook, health behaviour change, information technology, innovation, organizational learning, psychology, Twitter

Information technology provides a lot of ideas for how to change, but the tools are only one part of the equation. Without considering the culture in which these tools are used the change we want will not be the change we get.

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e(un)Health

August 25, 2009August 25, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 315 Views communication, eHealth, health, ICT, information overload, information technology, psychology, systems, time poverty, wellbeing

Is the ‘e’ part of eHealth working at cross purposes with our wellbeing? The speed, volume and complexity of information online and the myriad ways we access such information may be leading to new types of illnesses and problems as it solves others.