http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog A collaborative blog for the HC2006 health informatics event, developed and maintained by Peter Murray and Rod Ward. Please read the disclaimer. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:06:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en UPDATE 31 December 2006: This blog is now 'frozen' as a historical archive. Due to moving it to a new hosting provider, some of the 'bells and whistles' may no longer work. Watch out for more blogs in 2007.  The provision of conference blogs, such as this one, is still at ... http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog/?p=41 Perhaps a session on planning the future of HC events was not best held at 9:30 on a Wednesday morning, after the major social event of the previous event. For the few who attended the session, it provided an opportunity to input their views on the future of HC, as ... http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog/?p=40 We asked previously for your thoughts on what you hoped to get out of HC2006. Now it is over, we invite your comments - whether you were there, or whether you were reading this blog from afar - on what you got out of HC2006, or not, as the case ... http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog/?p=39 HC2006 is over - in the blink of an eye for those of us who were there. The Call for submissions for HC2007 is now available. HC2007 will be held on 19-21 March 2007 at the usual venue. The theme will be 'Challenging boundaries'. Watch the HC conference website - www.health-informatics.org ... http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog/?p=38 The Call for Submissions for medinfo2007 has been launched. The deadline for submissions is 4 DECEMBER 2006 and, as Joan Edgcumbe has been stressing to everyone she has talked to at HC2006 - THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSION. We want to see a high level of UK submissions - so ... http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog/?p=37 One of the final conference streams on Wednesday afternoon was a masterclass titled 'Human factors engineering: the path to usable software design', presented by Prof. Peter Elkin, of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Peter set his presentation, and the resulting discussion, within the premise that software usability is vitally ... http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog/?p=36 The HC conference and the exhibition seem much quieter and less stimulating than previous years. Delegate and exhibitor numbers are down and there is little of the "excitement" of previous years (perhaps I've just been too many times). This may be because everyone is so busy with implementation, and may also ... http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog/?p=33 The final plenary session was not well attended as many people had left the conference before it tok place. Prof Sir Muir Gray was presented with the BCS HC achievement award as the "first knight of health informatics". He received his knighthood last year for knowledge management in the NHS. He then ... http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog/?p=35 Dr Martin Baggaley (C4H clinical lead for London & Consultant Psychiatist) gave an interesting presentation setting out some specific issues for mental health trusts in London. He stressed the low base, in terms of electronic records systems, that mental health trusts are faced with, and the vital need for interoperability ... http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog/?p=34 To Blog or Not to Blog - not a question put to Peter & I but the title of a paper by Adrienne Speake from Northumberland Tyne & Wear SHA, who described the establishment of a blog "Talking Knowledge Management" by the knowledge management specialist library of the National Library ... http://differance-engine.net/HC2006blog/?p=32