First log

What a week and it's not over yet.   It has been an exhausting challenge to absorb as much information as possible about who all the "players" are, what teams they are on and at what meetings/events they need to be at and when.  It has been an amazing race given the time frame we had to work in and that it feels like everyone is on vacation right now. I think its finally starting to sink in. I have to keep reminding myself that I have only been here for the past three weeks. 

Our schedule for the Systems Dynamic consultants should be out by tomorrow.   

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I met with Mary Minniti and Sharon Sheremeta today regarding patient education. A work team is to be formed with Sharon as the lead and me as the liason to P2. Our primary deliverables will be:
(1) Database of all current resources for patient education and evaluation of all resources for compatibility with the goals of P2.
(2) Spread of the IOM aims and rules - educate educators on this view and create a process for creating and evaluating educational materials that is consistent with these goals.
(3) Research and implementation of electronic education for patients (e.g. development of patient web sites)

I'm hopeful that we will be educating the patients and community on what this "new health care system" is that we're creating and provide information on how to navigate it most effectively and how to get the most out of it. I'm hoping we will successfully involve numerous patients in the process of creation.

Another arm of P2 beginning to reach out.

We have started talking about Dialogue, a communication tool dedicated to learning  Click on the title for a brief power point presentation of the concepts.  For more on the topic, including perspectives of those in Whatcom County who have been practicing Dialogue for the last couple of years, see Lori's Stories...

We have started talking about Dialogue, a communication tool dedicated to learning  Click on the title for a brief power point presentation of the concepts.  For more on the topic, including perspectives of those in Whatcom County who have been practicing Dialogue for the last couple of years, see Lori's Stories...

I haven't had time to check this out but I use a similar product on my Mac and it is useful. My readers would probably appreciate it since I really cannot spell, even if my life depended on it. And I'm not a great typist either.

Spelling checker for IE (and Radio!). To Answer Kate Z's Question!.

"I urge any serious bloggers out there who haven't tried ieSpell yet to go over to www.iespell.com and do so.  Immediately!  The newest version now provides support for rich edit tools (like Radio's for instance) as well as AOL and other IE based browsers.  Worthy of a micro-donation for sure.

I'm going to suggest the possibility of user-defined short-cuts (or smart tags) to the author.  It seems like the perfect tool to provide all those cross-system, bloggers like myself a way to maintain a central list of shortcuts." [...useless miscellany]

[The Shifted Librarian]

È Well spotted Jenny, downloading now....

[Curiouser and curiouser!]

A little esoteric but I chose to post it on the my Home page as well as the Radio Category page, due to the low volume of Radio traffic at this poing.

This feature seems useful as more users particiapte. I hope that Jack Mancilla watches this one closely on our behalf.

Why TrackBack?.

More on TrackBack for KM. If Gammel and Mower both think there is something useful in TrackBack who am I to argue? I don't undersand it, but I'm open minded about it. [Blunt Force Trauma]

È I didn't get it at first either, and nor has everyone I've mentioned it to.

What makes TrackBack so important is, I think, the following:

Imagine that I read someone like Jon Udell (which I do) and I find an item of his particularly noteworthy or relevant to me.  I post it from my news page and add some editorial content of my own.

But if, like me, you are a relatively new blogger then maybe very few people read my item and nobody bothers to click through to Jon's original.   My item never appears in his list of referrers.

This means Jon, likely, will not know that it exists.  We could imagine further that Jon would have liked to know what comments I made but he  never gets the opportunity.

TrackBack addresses this problem.  It allows me as the author of an item to "ping" the original during the act of publishing.  This ping does not require someone to read my item and then click through to his.  Simply by publishing he is notified that someone has referenced him.

I think this is a very powerful idea and will help to get new bloggers into the space.  For those with interesting things to say the time to migrate from the fringe to the centre will be drastically reduced.

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

 

[Curiouser and curiouser!]