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Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Oct 6, 2008

  Identification and Hodges' model

In health and social care the importance of correctly identifying people in your care is drummed into you from the outset. Even before staff are on the payroll or in the lecture theatre everyone knows that common sense shouts "pay attention!" Drug administration and various other clinical...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008

  Reflection: programming and caring II

Reflection : ( Ruby Pocket Reference, O'Reilly , 2007, p. 147.) The ability of a language such as Ruby to examine and manipulate itself. For example, the reflection method class from Object returns an object's class ("hello".class # => String). Reflection within...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Sep 27, 2008

  Composability: Programming and Caring

Composability : ( Ruby Pocket Reference, O'Reilly, 2007) The degree to which you can express logic by combining and recombining parts of a language ( p. 136). Composability within health and social care - is there a further definition...? The degree to which you can express care...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Sep 25, 2008

  Knowledge site 'Pass It Along' [IBM] & 6 New Scientist Autumn Specials

There is a new beta site for software and systems developers... by IBM ' Pass It Along ' for sharing knowledge and expertise: Also received - news of 6 weeks of New Scientist Autumn Specials: Starting this week and running until 25th October issue, New Scientist will be featuring a...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Jul 11, 2008

  Health Informatics Review Report published

Published yesterday here in the UK by the Department of Health : The Health Informatics Review Report builds on the Next Stage Review by describing how informatics is supporting the delivery of better, safer care of patients , improving the NHS through better research, planning and...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Jul 15, 2008

  Next paper? Conceptual Spaces and Hodges' model

Somebody is in trouble. Me! I have not run the server for quite a while, so my Drupal skills (what they were) are in back-pedal mode again. I have been reading a bit on Ruby, but overall this is painful. Drupalcon 2008 Sgezed is booked so at least there is an ideal opportunity to get...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Jul 17, 2008

  Note to Corante - "What's in a (blog) name?"

As regulars here will be aware I've been wondering what Hodges' model might learn from other conceptual frameworks produced around the world. ... When I first read the following blog title - ' World Health Care Blog ' I thought - 'World Health Care' - now this sounds really...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Aug 7, 2008

  Hygiene: Hand wringing and Hand washing

Personally at the moment - and for some months to come - I’ve a lot of hand wringing to do. Ever future facing, while I get on with that - I’m reminded of the ongoing crusade for hygiene in hospitals and other clinical and care environments. While 'hygiene' does not always seem to have the...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Sep 3, 2008

  Holistic care: What is 'holistic bandwidth'?

The old website with its pages is static. In thinking about how to mix the old and create new dynamic content for a Drupal based site, I came across a possible way to define and explore our notions of holistic care . Here are some very initial musings.... First to focus on quantity . In...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Sep 4, 2008

  Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards (maybe next year!)

Returning from Szeged and Drupalcon I checked the Computer Weekly website to learn that W2tQ had not won an award. A disappointment then, but no great surprise. It was a real blast just being nominated and as they say there's always next year. Many congratulations to the winners and thanks...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm
Posted On:  Sep 10, 2008

  Don't waste energy - use a care plugin...

How often do policy makers refer to "joined-up care" while at the same time they strive for efficiency and effectiveness and the confusion that can arise there? As health and social care teams fall over themselves (efficiently) to deliver integrated and holistic care, they are also under...... [view]

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