On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:07:29 -0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 01:42 on 04/12/98
>about "RE: HealthnetPlus":
>>Who said anything about advertising?
>I rather took it that you were implying it.
Not quite, see below.
>>Would you say no to online CME?
>No, provided it is voluntary, bite-sized (5 minute fragments), and
>supports micro-credits (IE each 5 minute fragment completed
>generates a 12th of a PGEA hour credited to my account which I need
>not rewrite in quill pen and submit)
Even better than that. What would you say to a button in a corner of
the screen (other than: "hello button")?
Almost all of the services I mentioned would be available via series of
buttons that you would click on (or not) or even dismiss altogether
from your desktop.
>>Would you say no to personalised update editions?
>Quite possibly, once I found out what they were - I suspect this is
>"the daily me" web newspaper which only works for obsessive types
>who are willing to set it up and needs another generation of hinting
>engine technology to make actualy good at combining focussed
>interest with serendipity to make it work well.
You don't have to set it up and you don't have to look at the Web page
all the time. You would get an email alert in your inbox that you can
delete, keep, forward or whatever.
>>Would you say no to conference and meeting digests and reviews?
>Not if they were kept decently under wraps, I think a protal site
>would do this fine.
A button? A banner? An email alert? A RealAudio whisper alert?
>>Would you say no to real time drug updates?
>No. And add in real time Read (SNOMED/ICPC/ICD10) updates, and
>feedack in real time of code lookup failure requests.
>Been asking for it for years.
So shall you have it :-)
>>Would you say no to clinical guidelines feed?
>I may have to find another way to light the fire in my study.
It seems I got misunderstood about this one. Here is what I have in
mind:
- clinical guidelines and ebm are dveloped in far away places where no
patients have been seen for centuries.
- most medicine is practised in the trenches
- the 2 sets of people never feedback to each other
- how about if the use of a particular guideline in the trenches
actually *informs* the development process? Think about it.
Ahmad
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Dr Ahmad Risk
Editor Health Informatics Europe
http://hi-europe.co.uk
Tel: +44 1273 321805
Fax: +44 1273 774614
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