Sunday 6/16/02; 11:23:47 AM by MP

• Jack Mancilla and I are putting together the initial features of the Whatcom Pursuing Perfection Radio/Manila tools for transparent communication about the project.
• I have been looking at lots of other Radio/Manila site to borrow their approaches.
• The HInet folks, PeaceHealth Network folks, and the guys at Userland (Radio/Manila) got the server installed and the Proxy issues figured out.
• We hope to have the first group of users/developers online by the end of the week.

How to build an RSS digital dashboard using Manila and Radio (a low tech approach).  The concept is simple.  In addition to getting new posts from news sites and other weblogs, RSS feeds can contain data from corporate systems.  Sales data, financial data, supply data, data from partner systems, etc.  Using this method, employees could get up to the minute data from multiple applications on a single webpage -- a personal digital dashboard.

So, for example, I could be a sales manager at a Fortune 500 company.  I want to track information available to me from multiple corporate applications, and I don't want to run the client software for each app on my desktop.  I only want the data.  So, in order to offer employees better access to data, the IT department is convinced to spend a couple of days to create granular RSS feeds for the main corporate apps (CRM, ERP, financial, etc.).  Here is what the feed could look like:

Sale:  Customer name:  Proctor and Gamble,  Date:  June 12, 2002, Amount:  $2.3 m,  Made by:  Tom Durst, E-mail: tdurst@widget.com, K-Log:  http://tdurst.widget.com ,  Product: Widget XYZ

Using Radio I merely subscribe to the feeds I want to monitor form a list on the Intranet (using the news subscription page).  Every hour I get all the latest data from each of the apps.  Further, I can take any of this data, add an annotation/comment/POV, and publish it to my K-Log.  Sweet.  I could also create published views of this data using the Multi-author tool for Radio (this tool lets me select the feeds I want to group and publish them to category specific weblog). 

Manila works in a similar fashion.  I can publish feeds I want to subscribe to using a simple macro.  Using Manila, create a new page for your site (a story), place the macro below in the "source view" of the editing box.  Here is the macro:

{viewRssBox
("http://www.nanotechnews.com/nano/rdf",
boxTitle:"Nanotech News", align:"center", width:200,
frameColor:"#000000", titleBarTextColor:"#ADD8E6",
titleBarColor:"#FFFFFF", boxFillColor:"#FFFFFF", timeZone:"PST",
hspace:0, vspace:0, maxItems:20)}

Note:  replace the URL for the RSS feed I have in the above with the feed you want to monitor, change the name, and presto.  You now have a page on your site with the data from the RSS feed.  In fact, using Manila you could build a complete portal of aggregated newsfeeds without much technical knowledge.

If I was really motivated, I could use Radio's outliner to build a directory of aggregated feeds.

Digital dashboards should be something anybody can create, customize, and control.  Don't let your IT department launch into a multi-million $$ universal application portal when a simple approach like this could be accomplished in days for short dollars. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Pursuing Perfect Healht Care in Whatcom County, WA

This is a high level view of our project plan. Details will be forthcoming in various media and arenas. The project officially begins June 1 though much work has been going on at many levels in the participating organizations.

• Leadership Board Oversight
• Use of Simulation Model to advocate for reimbursement changes
• Complete Initial Staffing for Project
• Staff Training
• Creation of Curriculum and Documentation of Training provided all staff
• Measurement
• Information Technology Work on Infrastructure
• Medication Hand-offs Work
• Communication and Transparency (extraordinary openness) Infrastructure Complete
• Diabetes Pilot Work Plan
• Integrate Care Managers into the Clinics and Virtual Care Team
• Congestive Heart Failure Pilot Work Plan
• Hospital Related Changes to Support Chronic Care Model
• Living With Chronic Illness Program Expansion
• Idealized Design of Clinical Office Practice Completed for Pilots
• Develop Evidence Based Medicine strategy and approach
• Develop an approach for early adopters outside the grant

We need something akin to a site map for Whatcom PP that show what and who a user can link to.

Searching appropriately,

Our next big challenge is to get a search engine in our implementation of Radio and Manilla so that it does what the customer would expect: search the current author's category, the current author's entire web site, the entire Whatcom Community’s category or all local Radio PP sites, and then the WWPP by the same aggregates.

One would also want to be able to search by any combination of organizations, categories, and authors.

This represents design perspective as well as a search strategy.

Instant messaging for P2. Great potential..

My first AIM exchange with Jack Mancilla.

The fact that the conversation is documented and shareable is important for Communities of Learning. One just publishes it on a weblog or elsewhere if it proves to be productive and of use to others. This post is an example. It may not fit the stated criteria.

We need to research the network security issues around using instant messaging tools. WWPP (world wide pursuing perfection group) needs to get the IT leaders together to decide upon collaborative communication stragegies and goals for the community.

Cooperation and communication are related.

If we are to begin to cooperate/communicate with web logs we probably need some instruction in "reporting". I am thinking about getting a news paper reporter and some professor types from the university to help us learn to communicate in this style. I wonder if someone from the Weblogging community might not have some good ideas too.

I wonder if Userland could manage a "shared care plan". The key idea is that several (3-7) people need to be informed and in communication about a specific "data set".

I believe that Nicholas Riley had done this previously with Frontier Manilla or Radio.

The key ideas behind this entire Institute of Medicine approach includes six goals:
1. Safe, 2. Effective (evidence based), 3. Patient-centered, 4. Timely, 5. Efficient, and 6. Equitable; and ten simple rules:

1.  Continuous healing relationships
2.  Customization
3.  Patient control
4.  Shared information
5.  Evidence-based decision-making
6.  Safety as a system property
7.  Transparency
8.  Anticipation of needs
9.  Continuous decrease in waste
10.  Cooperation among clinicians

 

Russ Lipton has a great weblog explaining Radio. His expression Post Link, Annotoate: Action, Reaction, Interaction gets to the heart of Radio.

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100059/stories/2002/02/26/theGoodStuff.html

Too often the culture and organizational inertia brings innovation to a halt before it can germinate.