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Systems Perceiving

January 14, 2020February 24, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 819 Views healthcare, hospitals, medicine, psychology, purpose, sketch map, systemic design, systems thinking, toolkit

System change requires we understand the perceptions of those in that system. Here’s a way to go about that and make change real, not just an idea #systemchange #systemsthinking #systemicdesign

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The Power, Peril and Promise of Health Journalism

February 14, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 1042 Views anti-vaccination, Ben Goldacre, CBC Radio, Gardasil HPV vaccine, health reporting, journalism, Julia Belluz, knowledge translation, media ecology, medical evidence, medicine, newspapers, public health, science, the fourth estate, The Guardian, Toronto Star, vaccines

The Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely read newspaper known for its investigative reporting gifted anti-vaccination audiences armament by using poor

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Seeing the lights in research with our heads in the clouds

July 11, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 1331 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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Social Media and Health: Leaders(hip) and Followers(hip)

May 18, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 872 Views complexity, creativity, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, eHealth, evaluation, Facebook, health, health promotion, healthcare, innovation, medicine, organizational change, organizational design, public health, social media, systems thinking

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.