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Clinical knowledge architect for hire

Bruce — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:34:04 +0000

Dr Bruce McKenzie is now available for freelance consultancy as a clinical knowledge architect, addressing the unmet need for usable knowledge resources at the point-of-care in UK general practice. General practitioners (GPs) make more decisions in a day than a typical business executive, and these decisions cost not just money but potentially lives. It's challenging work, and you can but hope your decisions are based on good information. The problem is information overload and access to what you need when you need it: there's just too much and it's too hard to find in the context of a 10 minute consultation. As a GP for 10 years I can relate to this. I also have informatics knowledge and experience, and this puts me in a position to offer you solutions that are built the way a doctor would design them. The fact is information doesn't become knowledge by itself. After careful needs assessment raw information must be broken down and reconstructed into a usable form as part of a design process that draws upon both the art and science of information architecture. In other words it's a creative process, but it also necessitates solid technical insight into the context in which a knowledge resource will be used. With my primary care background, grasp of medical informatics, passion for writing, and practical experience in delivering concise clinical guidance for use at the point-of-care, I am now available for freelance consultancy as a clinical knowledge architect. Experience in primary care Ten years experience in several general ...

Zotero a boon for online academics

Bruce — Tue, 15 May 2007 08:58:27 +0000

From http://www.bioneural.net :

Zotero is a free Firefox extension that can automatically capture citation data from the web (e.g. Amazon books or PubMed articles). Integration with Word (Mac and PC) via a macro means it can be used to write scientific papers with formatted bibliographies (not as yet in Vancouver style, often used by medical journals). A great alternative to EndNote ($US240), or the pending OpenOffice Bibliographic project.

One zero

Bruce — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:55:16 +0000

From http://www.bioneural.net :

One zero is a very short (~1100 words) piece of creative writing introducing a world view based on binary code (Matrix inspired I guess). Originally the prelude to a short story I planned to write, it's sat on my hard drive untouched for the past 3 years (although the first words were written sometime earlier). As a full story it will never see the light of day, so I present it here for your consumption. Does it stir anything in you? Do I have any potential as a writer of fiction (or what needs to improve)? Where would it take you if you were to write the next 1000 words? Prelude Kate carried the steaming malt drink with care as she climbed the stairs to the attic-come-study of her rented Victorian terraced house. On reaching her desk she positioned the mug out of harm's way, between the keyboard and desktop computer. Bleary-eyed, Kate turned her attention once again to the case study on the screen in front of her. Shifting her weight in the chair, she silently cursed gravity as it seemed to take hold of her bones. The discomfort in her buttocks, she reasoned, was because her backside was being starved of oxygen. Like many medical students, Kate was able to visualise biological processes in graphic detail. Her mind's eye depicted the oxygen-carrying blood cells being squeezed out of the tiny blood vessels in her buttock muscles, as the bony parts of the pelvis bore into them. But this wasn't getting any ...