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?

 

 

Jeff Belden MD

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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.

Slide Show

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.

Jeff Belden MD

beldenj@health.missouri.edu

573-489-4206 m

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Geek Salad meets this Tues Feb 3 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry St

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

beldenj@health.missouri.edu

573-489-4206 m

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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

beldenj@health.missouri.edu

573-489-4206 m

 

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

beldenj@health.missouri.edu

573-489-4206 m

Geek Salad: Tossing Ideas Around

meeting every other Tuesday at 0700

at Kaldi's Coffee on 9th and Cherry

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