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Returning Home

July 6, 2013July 6, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 231 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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The Face-to-Face Complexity of eHealth & Knowledge Exchange

November 24, 2010November 24, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 260 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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Amazing Stuff: The Film and Video Edition

December 1, 2009May 25, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 470 Views engagement, film, health, health promotion, healthcare, innovation, public eHealth, social media, TV, video, Youth Voices Research Group, YouTube

Social and video media are the topic of this week’s Amazing Stuff: from social policy to documentaries, I highlight video sharing and creating sites that inspired me over the past week.

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Benchmarking Success in Times of Change

November 30, 2009May 25, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 212 Views complexity, complexity science, design thinking, eHealth, evaluation, innovation, public eHealth, public health, social networks, systems thinking, technology, Twitter, wave

Beyond Google Wave, the metaphor of waves sloshing around in a sea of influence provides a useful metaphor for those interested in doing evaluation in an eHealth environment where there is no one cause and many consequences.

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eHealth Deja Vu All Over Again

September 29, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 247 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.