Geek Salad meets Tue Dec 22 - How are you securing your passwords?

We'll meet this Tue AM at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry.
Baby, it's cold outside, but it's warm by that nice fireplace in Kaldi's near the big screen TV.

I've been using Splash ID for keeping my passwords. Originally I chose it because it had a Palm and a Mac version. Now it has an iPhone version.
I now use Xmarks to sync my bookmarks and to save passwords. Xmarks syncs across Mac and Windows, and has versions for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and now Google Chrome.

Last Pass
Here's a tool I hadn't known of before. I think I'll try it. Free!
It's appealing to me that it will:

* generate unique passwords for each website I use. Currently, I share the same password more often than I'd like.
* auto fill web forms, if you like
* work with multiple browsers and many platforms, including iPhone, Win, Mac, and all my browsers.

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See you Tuesday.
If I don't, here's wishing you and your family happy holidays.

Visualizing the Actual Cost of Getting Sick

Slick visualization tool looking at healthcare costs.
Play with the age slider, and click on different pieces of the health care pie.

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Geek Salad meets again Tue Nov 24 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Here's a new service, called "Measy".
Helps you find the perfect gadget.
It's buyer-centric.
Even let's you specify energy use and corporate responsibility in your purchase decision.

I walked through the process of choosing a netbook, and it narrowed the choice to ONE!
I'm not buying the netbook, though.

http://www.measy.com

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New AHRQ-Funded Reports on Usability of EMRs

I'm excited!

I just browsed two new reports on EMR (EHR) Usability funded through AHRQ. They outline some high-priority research agenda and public policy items, and acknowledge the dearth of systematic evidence on EMR usability.

New AHRQ-Funded Reports on the Usability of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems

To explore the opportunity to improve EHR system usability, AHRQ commissioned the creation of two reports that synthesize the existing research and evidence in this area and suggest common methods to evaluate EHR usability going forward.

• Electronic Health Record Usability: Evaluation and Use Case Framework synthesizes the literature and best practices regarding the usability of EHRs, and it provides a set of use cases to evaluate information design in primary care IT systems.
• Electronic Health Record Usability: Interface Design Considerations provides recommended actions to support the development of an objective EHR usability evidence base and formative policies to systematically improve the usability of EHR systems.

For a full list of reports, tools, and other resources on the usability of health IT systems and applications, search the Knowledge Library.

One Buttock Playing - Inspiring Leadership

I encountered a friend who mentioned that his son is a composer in Washington DC.
I can't hear the word "composer" without thinking of Ben Zander.
He says "leadership is seeing the shining eyes in others."

Three points.

1. Look at this video player interface. It helps you find the right spot in the video. Chapter markers appear when you hover over the timeline. That's the pedestrian point I wanted to make.
2. Watch the video. Listen. Engage.
* http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html
3. Now, go read his book. Inspire others. You have it in you.
* http://benjaminzander.com/book/

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Geek Salad meets again Tue Oct 24 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Relationships Make Things Happen
Sometimes, we give too much credit to timelines, processes, and personal drive.
I couldn't get squat done in my jobs if I didn't work with others I knew, trusted, and valued.

Take some time today to express gratitude to those on your team, in your family, or in other relationships.

A couple things helped me become aware again of this truth:

* Listening to an audio book "Three Cups of Tea" during a dozen hours of driving this weekend
* Old friends we met up with this weekend.

Read more, if you have another minute or two...

I'm typing this in the back seat of our car, in the driving rain, with Aretha Franklin belting out on the radio (some oldies station). No, I'm not driving.

I've been on a few days vacation visiting one of my wife's childhood buddies. We had a great time together.

He (Randy) worked for Bell Telephone Labs in Indianapolis designing phones (land-line phones, the kind you leased monthly from the phone company). They were durable as hell! He had a cool display of several phones they made, semi-exploded (the gentle way, to show the insides). They were made with serviceability in mind. Easy to replace ailing parts.

Bell Labs moved to New Jersey, and Randy valued his Indy roots. He stayed, founded an engineering firm that finished some Bell projects that would have died otherwise during the move.

Eventually, he moved on to Rolls Royce (right there in the corn fields of Indiana), managing/engineering controls for jet engines (like the fuel injectors at $35k each, sensors, computers, etc.). You'll fly more peacefully knowing there are duplicate/redundant systems, just like in the NASA space vehicles.

I did not get to see any jet engines, exploded or otherwise.

See you Tuesday AM, if you can make it.

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Geek Salad meets Tue Oct 13 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Do you need to make a visual presentation?
See if your slides or visuals pass "The Glance Test".

http://blog.duarte.com/2009/10/stanford-passed-and-failed-the-glance-test-would-you/

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See you Tuesday AM.
I'll need to leave a little early.

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Geek Salad meets on Tue Sep 29 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Your call is very important to us…

Like most humans I know, I hate hearing this.

Now, there is an effective cure!

 

Fonolo!

Nice business model, offering a web plug-in for businesses.

Individual user-customers still get free service.

 

See you Tuesday.

We appreciate your patience. The expected wait time is approximately …86 hours.

 

Geek Salad meets this Tue Sep 15 from 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Good Design Faster: “Sketch-Boards” and “Design Sprints”
I need to stop linking to podcasts, since most of us don’t have time to listen to one if it’s not already automatically going to our iPods.
I couldn’t resist. Here’s a link to the show notes:
http://bit.ly/spoolfast

I’ve started using Posterous.com for our Geek Salad blog postings.
It handles images better.

See you Tuesday.

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How can we explore a range of solutions before diving into a single solution? Wireframes are very useful to the process, but instead, we should consider delaying them. Before wireframes, Leah suggests a very open, cross-team exploratory stage. Invite people from across your organization and even collaborate with those who might not normally be within the core design group.

Leah suggests a week-long ‘design sprint’ that begins with a group brainstorming meeting in the morning with lots of people… and everyone’s opinions count. Then that afternoon, the group sketches out a large number of low-fidelity sketches further exploring the experience they’re looking to design, based on the morning’s activities. Sketching many iterations based on different perspectives like, ‘how would we optimize this for a first-time user?’ ‘how about for a power-user?’ ‘how about for this demographic?’

Then the week-long process continues...

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Steve Mays showed us some online tool he likes/uses/recommends

Steve Mays posted some cool things he likes here:
http://smays.posterous.com/demo-for-geek-salad




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My friend Steve Mays works for Learfield Communications in Jefferson City will present for 20 minutes or so on “Having fun trying new things”.

 

Steve has the enviable job (IMHO) of evaluating new technologies for his organization. And he’s effective and productive!

He holds court at the Coffee Zone in Jefferson City on High Street most AMs (see below in his natural habitat).

One of my favorite people to follow on Twitter.

 

If you want to stalk him beforehand:

·         Podcast – Living Healthy Podcast - with Henry Domke MD

·         Blogs – www.smays.com, Politix.com, and more

·         Twitter - @smaysdotcom

·         And more… (vimeo, flickr, YouTube…)

 

 

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Know an artist good with pen and pencil?

I’d like to meet someone with great drawing skills to collaborate (for pay) on some software design projects.

I have a storyboard about “interruptions in clinic” I sketched clumsily that might be the first project.

 

Can you send me a lead, or invite them to Geek Salad some day?

Thanks.

 

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Geek Salad meets Tue Aug 18 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

This week, Jamie Stephens of Bookd.com will show us his work as a local software entrepreneur.

Jason Cafer MD invited Jamie for us.

Discussion makes up most of the hour.

Bring your curiosity.

 

We added two new names to the Geek Salad mailing list:

·         Brian Ching MD, a first year Family Medicine Resident

·         Annette Sobel MD MS, Asst to the Provost and Asst to the Vice President UMC

 

 

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Geek Salad meets next Tue Aug 4 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry

I have a thought and a question.

 

The Question:

Is there an online (or any other) survey tool that allows easy inclusion of images within the survey itself?

Surveymonkey does, but it’s a bit clunky.

Ideally, I’d like to drag and drop the images.

I want to show alternative sketches or prototype images to clinician users, and ask for feedback or to see if they “get it”.

 

Now the thought (unrelated):

Listen to the first 13 minutes (then try to stop) of this interview with Tim O’Reilly, talking about transforming the way we interact with government.

I thought, listening to one of his examples, of how we might muster local citizen effort to patch up this part of the trail system (the green bike icon), under Providence, all washed out. Join the discussion Tue AM!

                  

 

 

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My first academic paper - on EMR Usability

Friends,

I did my first published paper in academics!

A subject near and dear to your heart, too: EMR Usability

 

I posted about it on my blog, www.toomanyclicks.com.

Link to the actual paper is here (a 42 page PDF) at the HIMSS website.

 

Here's the executive summary:

Electronic medical record (EMR) adoption rates have been slower than expected in the United States,

especially in comparison to other industry sectors and other developed countries. A key reason, aside

from initial costs and lost productivity during EMR implementation, is lack of efficiency and usability of

EMRs currently available. Achieving the healthcare reform goals of broad EMR adoption and

"meaningful use" will require that efficiency and usability be effectively addressed at a fundamental

level.

 

We conducted a literature review of usability principles, especially those applicable to EMRs. The key

principles identified were simplicity, naturalness, consistency, minimizing cognitive load, efficient

interactions, forgiveness and feedback, effective use of language, effective information presentation,

and preservation of context.

 

Usability is often mistakenly equated with user satisfaction, which is an oversimplification. We describe

methods of usability evaluation, offering several alternative methods for measuring efficiency and

effectiveness, including patient safety. We provide samples of objective, repeatable and cost‐efficient

test scenarios applicable to evaluating EMR usability as an adjunct to certification, and we discuss rating

schema for scoring the results.

 

HIMSS 2009

 

Thanks for your inspiration and for teaching me over the past few years.

 

 

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Geek Salad meets Tue July 7 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Posterus.com has added a number of new features that have me thinking strongly about using it for our Geek Salad blog hosting.

 

 

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Tag Radio Songs for Later Purchase While You Drive

I thought this was interesting and well written. Many times I've started listening to a radio show, and wanted to catch the rest of it later, but had no method for doing that. That might change, if…

Glenn is a great writer.

 

Jeff

Tag Radio Songs for Later Purchase While You Drive

by Glenn Fleishman

iTunes Tagging seemed like the ultimate in awkward technology to me when it was announced in September 2007 by Apple and iBiquity, the firm responsible for HD Radio, the only legal standard for digital AM and FM transmission in the United States. (Satellite radio is controlled by Sirius.)

I finally used the technology yesterday, and I was surprisingly impressed by it. You need the background first to understand why my mind was changed, and what the future symbiosis for broadcast radio and Internet radio might be.

Tag, You're Buying It -- The idea behind iTunes Tagging was to add tag button to radios with iPod and iPhone docks that would let you later decide to buy a song you heard. If you were listening to a radio station that was broadcasting a special tag number that uniquely identified the song, and you pressed the tag button while your device was docked, the radio would send that information over the dock. Some radios could store tags and load them on a device when it was docked subsequently, too.

Later, when you synced your iPod or iPhone with iTunes, the tagging information would be transferred into iTunes, where it shows up under a special entry in the Store section of the sidebar.

Awkward, huh? You need a radio with a dock, you have to listen to a station broadcasting tags, you must move the iPhone or iPod back and forth, and then you have to use iTunes to buy the tagged songs.

The first tabletop and portable radios came out with this feature in early 2008, and while I would occasionally see it written up, it seemed merely like a marketing idea with little impact. The list of capable devices (missing at least a few) is quite slim at hdradio.com, a site run by radio stations promoting the technology.

HD Radio, meanwhile, has been floundering. There are about 12,000 radio stations in the United States and only about 15 percent - largely public radio stations and parts of radio empires - have turned on digital broadcasts. That number hasn't grown much over the last two years, after an initial flurry of interest by stations in what is a relatively cheap upgrade, but which also requires recurring royalty fees to iBiquity. Only some percentage of those 1,500 stations use iTunes Tagging, too.

HD Radio has a lot of compromises, but when it works well and you're within the coverage area, the sound quality of AM improves from hideous to very nice, and for FM it offers a sound similar to a well-compressed MP3 or AAC file. FM also gains multiple sub-stations which have unique programming.

I won't go into the many reasons that this form of digital radio - as distinct from satellite radio in the United States and from incom...

 

Sent from my iPhone 

running v3.0

Jeff Belden

Geek Salad meets June 23 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Elm

This time, I’d love some feedback on some Infectious Disease dashboard design sketches.

This dashboard aims to present a timeline of culture results (someone comes into the hospital with an apparent infection: is it in the lung, the urine, the blood, elsewhere?).

I have a few sketches pasted below, and more online here.

I can explain more Tue AM. I may bring crayons and paper again, if I remember…

 

        

 

 

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Geek Salad meets tomorrow, Tue June 10 from 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry

We plan to have Jason Cafer show his latest iteration of Iconichealth web app for psychiatry EMR.

We got a quick preview last time.

 

We had planned to also have a remote hookup with a guest, but will not be doing that now. More on that if you ask in person.

 

I have a friend trying to promote sustainability at the college where he works.

I am giving advice on how to present messages effectively.

 

Here is a nice example.

 

Check out the slide show here:
http://www.slideshare.net/garr/sample-slides-based-on-food-inc.

Not yet on SlideShare: Go here to signup for a free account on SlideShare, the World's largest community for sharing presentations. Or take the 1 minute tour to learn more about it.

Do you know? SlideShare is now also available on LinkedIn, the World's largest professional network. Add the SlideShare app to your LinkedIn profile using this link: Install SlideShare on LinkedIn (will require logging into your LinkedIn account)

 

 

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Geek Salad will meet Tuesday May 26 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry

I’m working on a white paper on EHR Usability.

One of our co-conspirators is Juhan Sonin, out at MIT.

He posted a blog entry recently on software design, with a heavy emphasis on “design”, titled “Design Axioms”.

Fun to read.

Has punch!

 

And here’s his mockup for a US HealthCard.

 

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FW: Links

Here are the links I mentioned at Geek Salad meeting 5/12/09.

 

I attended the “Re-engineering the Teaching, Learning & Research Environment at Mizzou” conference and picked up a couple of good resources for Ed Tech stuff…

 

Dr. Ed Berger, & Dr. Charles Krousgrill – Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia: http://www.highered20.org/

 

Cyndi Danner-Kuhn - KSU College of Education – site with many Ed Tech resources: http://www.cyndidannerkuhn.info

 

 

Marc Strid

Program Director, Educational Technologies

College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources

University of Missouri-Columbia

 

Twitters about Swine Flu - a light-hearted start to the weekend

http://xkcd.com/574/




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You might be interested in this Chartle at: http://www.chartle.net/embed?index=12965

 

 

The social data visualization space greets another member. In other words, the "early beta" and "Web2.0 ready!" service called [chartle.net] is joining the ranks of Verifiable, Many Eyes, Swivel, iCharts, Trendrr, Widgenie, Track-n-Graph and Timetric.

 

I am not sure what makes this portal stand out from the crowd. The charts are simple and have some interactivity as clicking reveals the data values behind. The are many available techniques, including the traditional bar charts, pie charts, line graphs, plots and diagrams, timeline and motion charts, and a "fun" category, containing Google-o-Meter, data gauges and organization charts. Having observed the general aesthetic and similarity of bugs, the engine behind seems to be based on the Google Visualization API.

 

                From Information Aesthetics

                http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/05/chartle_net_another_social_interactive_charts_online_portal.html

 

 

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³And the iPhone Competition winners are...=?ISO-8859-1?B?siA=?=Join us Tuesday, May 5th in the RJI Smith Forum!!

Greetings!

We sincerely invite (and encourage) you to join us next Tuesday, May 5th for an afternoon of important presentations and dialog.

Last September 70 Mizzou students started the RJI iPhone Competition to develop, test and market native iPhone apps. This year's highly successful Competition concludes next week with the final four team’s presentations, the announcement of the winning team, and two exceptional panel discussions to set the trajectory of future similar initiatives.

Please share this information will all your campus associates:

Tuesday, May 5th
Reynolds Journalism Institute

1:15 – 2:45 Fred W. Smith Forum

“And the winners are...”  Meet the interdisciplinary teams that made it to the Final Four and find out which team will win the grand prize — a trip to Apple’s 2009 Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. And which team will win the coveted People’s Choice award — the right to keep the iPhones! Mike McKean, director of the Futures Lab and professor at the Missouri School of Journalism will moderate as students demo their apps and discuss what they learned.

2:45 – 3:30 Fred W. Smith Forum

University legal and business experts discuss the opportunities and challenges supporting the development of intellectual property by students, faculty and staff.  RJI Director of Program Development Roger Gafke moderates as the panel considers how best to guide multiple departments, a non-profit entity and commercial partners through complex contractual requirements. Panelists:

Roger Gafke (moderator)
Director of Program Development, RJI
Professor Emeritus, Missouri School of Journalism

Ken Dean
MU Deputy Provost
Associate Professor, MU School of Law

Kelly Mescher
J.D., Office of the General Counsel, University of Missouri

Harriet Francis
J.D., Office of Technology Management and Industrial Relations

Ian Graves
student, MU Computer Science
participant in RJI iPhone and Adobe AIR student competitions

3:30 – 4:00
Break, opportunity to meet one-on-one with iPhone student teams

4:00 – 5:15 Fred W. Smith Forum
University of Missouri President Gary Forsee moderates a panel of business leaders discussing how the RJI iPhone competition can be a model for economic development partnerships.

Gary D. Forsee
President, University of Missouri System

Vicky Russell
Associate Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
President, Missouri Press Association
board member, Regional Economic Development Inc. (REDI), Columbia, MO

Dan Mehan
President, Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Jim Spencer
President, Newsy.com

Ben Kruse
Director, Higher Education Mobility, AT&T Business Services

Bob Lozano
Chief Strategist and Founder, Appistry, Inc.

And be sure to vote for our favorite app:
http://rji.missouri.edu/projects/student-competitions/stories/vote/index.php

 
Keith Politte, J.D.
Manager, Technology Testing Center
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Missouri School of Journalism
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Columbia, Missouri 65211

Office:573-882-9646
Mobile: 573-268-3658
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Emerging Skill Sets for Economic Development
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Geek Salad meets again Tue Apr 28 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry

Usability testing ≠ a good user experience

 

I like the metaphor of doing strategy, not just tactics.

Here's a good example:

• Strategic plan: Go from airport to hotel
• Tactics: Make some turns

 

"Find and fix" usability is like making a turn. It's a good thing to do… If you know where you're going. And that's where strategy – and strategic user experience - comes into play."

        Paul Sherman

 

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Geek Salad meets this Tues April 14 at 7-8 at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry

Back from a week at HIMSS in Chicago.

Mostly networked.

Had a blast talking again this year to my favorite usability guru, Sumit Rana.

We might invite him to iChat at an upcoming Geek Salad, when Jason Cafer can show off his latest renderings of medication icons.

 

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ytube probelm

Good Morning,

I have a student having problems with a ytube presentation. She's specifically having problems adjusting the size of the images. Does anyone have suggestions as to where she might find help?

 

thanks,

pea

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Smashing Magazine has a great, detailed article on "menus"

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/24/designing-drop-down-menus-examples-and-best-practices/


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Jakob Nielsen’s latest post has a nice piece on “Mega Drop-down Menus”.

Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well

    Summary:
    Big, two-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain the user's choices.

Here’s the article link:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mega-dropdown-menus.html


http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mega-dropdown-menu-foodnetwork.gif
 
 

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Geek Salad meets this Tuesday Mar 17 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry

Last time, I was more poetic with my seed thought (What is it like working with the beast?).

Great conversation around that.

 

This time, the article that caught my eye is detailed and content heavy, but hey!

I placed a picture, for those who just like to look at the pictures.

 

Wanted/Needed: UX Design for Collaboration 2.0

No current software supports the full process of collaboration.

by Matthew C. Clarke

 

See you then!

 

 

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Nice use of sparklines for lab trends

http://synapsedirect.com/forums/post/3190.aspx




What if we could hover over sparkline and get the last 2-3 values? That would allow us to list ONLY the current value, and not the previous value. Then, the last few prior values are only a hover away...

Only the value, not the units, not the time of day, not the long hand name for the test, not the name of the person who drew the blood.....only the most useful kernel of information.

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Geek Salad meets again Tuesday Mar 3 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry

Think about this question:

What is it like working with the beast?

 

I was thinking about how collaboration is such an essential element in our work.

That means working with others.

 

So, what is the “beast” I refer to?

It depends, and it’s always changing.

 

Maybe one day, it’s a co-worker. Another day it might be seemingly witless clients.

Or maybe your inner demons.

 

What’s it like for you?

 

 

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More sketches for a Dashboard for Infectious Disease

I made some more sketches after I got an email response from Garrel Renick, the original inspiration for Geek Salad, and for me even knowing about sparklines and Edward Tufte.

 

I have uploaded all the sketches to a web album: Dashboard for Infectious Disease

 

Dashboard for Infectious Disease Feb 14, 2009 by Jeff Belden View Album Play slideshow

 

I’d love to hear more of your comments and suggestions. I’ll bring paper and crayons Tuesday AM, for anyone who’s interested.

 

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More Dashboard Sketches for Infectious Disease Patients

Here are a series of sketches for elements of a clinical dashboard for a hospitalized patient with serious infectious diseases. Your suggestions are welcome.

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Geek Salad meets Tuesday Feb 17 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry

Gang,

I’m working on a project where doctors dealing with complicated infections are looking for data over days, weeks, or months.

Often, these are people in the hospital with numerous cultures of body fluids, and many procedures to look for the causes of infection.

It is tedious to go back and find all these pieces of data.

So, we are working on a dashboard view for the EHR.

Take a look at these sketches. We can talk about these on Tuesday. I’m interested in your thoughts.

See you Tuesday, if you can make it.

============================ here are the sketches ======================

I was reminded of these little bar graphs pioneered by Stephen Few and Edward Tufte.

So I thought of some ways to convey layers of information in a timeline graph, particularly with culture results, C diff results, and with procedure dates (and positive and negative findings).

Consider these sketches very preliminary.

They should foster discussion:

· What looks helpful?

· Can we change this?

· What if we combined these two elements?

· You have the shading just the opposite of what is helpful!

Offer your own sketches or annotations on these.

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See you Tuesday.

 

MU’s iPhone app contestants are in Cupertino now, presenting.

Keith Politte (faculty)

Adam Hosp (contestant)

 

And…

Very cool (I’m a biology geek, OK?) animation of how our DNA works.

DNA Coiling, Replication, Transcription and Translation

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/01/dna_coiling_replication_transcription_and_translation.html

 

 

Jeff Belden MD

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Great interview with Ross Mayfield about Social Collaboration tools

I just listened to this interview with Ross Mayfield of Socialtext, on Net@Night with Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur.

He speaks with great clarity and insight about online collaboration tools:

• when to choose wikis, blogs, social networking like Facebook, social bookmarking like Delicious, or social text messaging like Twitter, or email as tools for your job
• how to allow for different user preferences, allowing people to choose the tools they feel comfortable using
• how email is failing us, with deluged inboxes, cc’s that we could easily do without, etc
• how things are shaping up to affect us in the next 1-3 years

 

http://twit.tv/natn84

Skip ahead to 20:45 to go straight to start of the interview with Ross.

 

Or you can skip even farther ahead to skip to 36:50, where he addresses our kinds of concerns.

It’s about 23 minutes long, if you start there.

 

You can also download this podcast to an iPod or iPhone.

 

 

Jeff Belden MD

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Geek Salad meets Tuesday Jan 20 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Elm

It will be the day after a 3 day weekend, and I’m sending out this notice on Saturday, so some of you may not see this in time to be reminded.

 

Last time, we talked about how our communication has changed over the past few years. Responses ranged from chat, to cell phone, to Skype, to stepping off the grid. People had other questions and other innovation ideas to share, as well.

 

I came across this little cartoon from

XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language,

and couldn’t stop laughing. Temperature seemed pertinent this week.

http://xkcd.com/526/

 

 

Jeff Belden MD

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Cool graphics of a People Page

I came across this cool site by Nancy Duarte’s firm. They made Al Gore’s slides for “An Inconvenient Truth.”

The “People Page” is intriguing.

http://www.duarte.com/#3.0.0

 

 

 

Jeff Belden MD

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RE: Geek Salad meets Tuesday Jan 6 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry

I have been looking at Groove. I have set up an account (very easy), but have not tested it yet. Here is the scoop:

 

Microsoft® Office Groove® 2007 is Internet software for making direct connections with the people who are important to you. With Office Groove 2007, you can bring together team members from both inside and outside your company, with no IT assistance required and no need to waste time thinking about firewalls, servers, security, or network access. Additionally, you can enjoy the efficiency of always knowing each other's virtual location, or online presence, thus allowing for organic and quick conversation and collaboration.

 

 

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Are you aware of any slick collaboration tools?

 

·         I am able to use SharePoint to do document collaboration. Not easy.

·         I’ve done several document collaborations now on Google Docs. It’s pretty easy. I’ve tripped myself up by not making a document public in time. I like seeing the older versions.

·         I’ve never edited anything on Wikipedia, though I’ve peeked under the hood.

 

Most of my academic colleagues are still sending around Word documents. Some, but not most, are using the Review feature that lets one add annotations, which you can show or hide. Someone then has to come along and add the suggested changes.

 

Google Spreadsheets and Forms are an easy way to make simple online surveys.

If you want branching logic, you need to use Survey Monkey. Or maybe Sean Goggins has a new product from Lanit…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Jeff Belden MD

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