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"GeoVation is all about doing interesting, exciting and worthwhile things with geography. There are two competitions – the GeoVation Ideas Challenge and GeoVation Awards Programme."
Archive for October, 2009
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"How nurses can develop and implement initiatives using information and communication technologies to support patients with long term conditions"
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Brief pointers to what to look for re ROI – but the real point is the embedded preso – wonderful use of film stills + speech bubbles!!
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HIAs "To stem the rising tide of chronic disease and create safe, thriving communities, health needs to be regularly factored into policy and program decisions in sectors that do not traditionally focus on health outcomes. A health impact assessment (HIA) is a flexible, data-driven approach that identifies the health consequences of new policies, and develops practical strategies to enhance their health benefits and minimize adverse effects"
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"Participatory Medicine is a cooperative model of health care that encourages and expects active involvement by all connected parties (patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, etc.) as integral to the full continuum of care. The ‘participatory’ concept may also be applied to fitness, nutrition, mental health, end-of-life care, and all issues broadly related to an individual’s health. The Society was founded to learn about and promote Participatory Medicine through writing, speaking, social networking, and other channels."
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"The Institute of Medicine’s recent workshop on building a rapid-learning system for cancer became, for an hour or so, a seminar on participatory medicine."
Useful model for KX and LTCs?
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covers your home, banking paying bills etc etc. For people with learning disabilities. But lots more of us can learn from the material!
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announcement of project on IL, working with LTS, realting to exemplars inthe context of English and Literacy. Potential synergies with ALISS?
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tool for running an online card sort with minimal fuss
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"Conclusions: Searching across quality health information sources on the Web can improve consumers’ accuracy in answering health questions. However, a consumer’s confidence in an answer is not a good indicator of the answer being correct. Consumers who are not confident in their answers after searching are more likely to be influenced to change their views when provided with feedback from other consumers."
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"The main aim of Social Enterprise Investment Fund is to enhance the quality of services being offered to patients across the country. This objective is being met by enabling social firms to provide quality social and health care services to the patients"
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"Blogs, Feeds and News magically delivered to your email!"
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"nhsUnlocked is the brain-child of two NHS hospital doctors – Chris McCullough and Matt Jameson Evans, the founders of the not-for-profit doctors pressure group, www.remedyuk.org. We decided that in order to make sense of the NHS choice agenda, people needed access to up-to-date impartial information on the services provided by the NHS. How can someone decide where to be treated if there is actually no way for them to compare hospitals or departments? It is like being told that you can go on holiday anywhere that you want but then being given no information about any of the destinations."
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"Do-it was launched in 2001 with the first, and still the only, national database of volunteering opportunities in the UK."
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"Like any social tool, Facebook needs to be worked in order to achieve specific marketing, event or fundraising goals." A practical primer on going about this
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"This week I had the opportunity to present to senior managers in my organisation (a local authority) to explain what social media is, how it is affecting us and why we need to develop a social media strategy."
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Nice way of presenting snippets of info. Though, this being the Guardian, everyone looks rather well scrubbed-up and members of the liberal establishment!
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snippets from recent Ofcom survey of young people & the web – attitudes, behaviour patterns etc etc
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find running routes near you. Any social networking element??
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Data visualisations from the Framingham study and two similar projects. How social networks influence health behaviours, it's suggested
