http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog A blog and podcast site for NI2006 in Seoul, June 2006. Developed by the hi-blogs.info team. Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:27:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en UPDATE of 28 December 2006: The blog is now frozen and will not take further comments. Look out for further blogs from the hi-blogs.info 'krew'. Also, please note that as I have moved to a new hosting provider, some of the original functionality and links may no longer be here. The ... http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog/?p=57 The final event of the conference was the closing ceremony which included thanks to everyone who had been involved. Prizes were presented to the winners amongst the student papers and the hand over from Heather Strachen to Robyn Carr as the chair if IMIA-NI. The team, from the Finnish Nurses Assocation, ... http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog/?p=56 The final keynote presentation was given by Dame June Clark - with a title of "The impact of ICT on health, healthcare, and nursing in the next 20 years". June tried to draw together many of the themes of the conference in her consideration of where we are ... http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog/?p=55 On Wednesday morning the team behind this blog presented a sesion on Blogs, podcasts, wikis etc. Peter gave an introduction and overview of some the topics. Rod then talked about and demonstrated the conference blog and some blog tools. Margaret then took over to demonstrate podcasting and vodcasting, including a ... http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog/?p=54 At the end of Tuesday afternoon, a workshop was held titled 'Developing nursing informatics globally: the Croatian, Cuban and South African experiences and some issues for future IMIA-NI activity'. Unfortunately, several of the planned presenters were unable to be present; Yoadis from Cuba was unable to get the NI2006, as ... http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog/?p=53 The conference Gala Dinner was held on the Tuesday evening (when Korea were playing their first match in the worldcup). The dinner was soup, salad, steak and a mouse & quite pleasant (although they had problems with deleagtes who were vegetarian or on Gluten free diets etc). The wine (possibly ... http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog/?p=52 Kathleen Smith and Carol J. Bickfordled this workshop and started by getting everyone to introduce themselves & saying what they wanted to get out of it. They described there experience and purposes in setting up the Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics moving from clinical topics to informatics and education. They tried ... http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog/?p=51 Ursula Huebner form Fachochsule Osnabruck, Germany asked the question eHealth in Nursing - is it already routine? She used a definition of e-health (from Gnter Eysenbach) which suggests it is a state of mind and wa of wrking, as well as being about technology. The presentation was based on 2 ... http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog/?p=50 After my own presentation on the use of ICT to support students in practice - which I will let someone else comment on - I attended a presentation by Stephen Timmons a sociologist for Nottingham, Uk who reported a study looking at a teledermatology project. He reported the view that ... http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog/?p=49 I was able to attend Michael Dreher's presentation on the Geriatric Reasoning Informatics Project (GRIP) at Drexel University, USA. The GRIP project revolved around the use of a geriatric assessment tool that is provided on a PDA. The tool assists the nursing student in developing a nursing diagnosis for a ... http://differance-engine.net/ni2006blog/?p=48