Wanted to share this article from our institute written in collaboration with colleagues from
other institutes.
It begins as an autoethnographic reflection of an individual physician
exploring the relationship between his largely qualitative day to day clinical activity
with individual patients and population based average patient data
(that is largely quantitative).
Following this write up we have been inspired to work towards trying to leverage ICT
for answering individual health information needs and are grateful to be able to keep
learning from colleagues across multiple disciplines from the pure clinical to pure informatics.
Another issue is much as one would love to publish open access we were compelled to publish with a closed access publisher as it is difficult to obtain organizational funding for
the fee open access journals need (although they do give generous waivers on an individual basis).
Interestingly even closed access journals seem to be catching on to the idea by offering
individual authors the option to pay to unlock their own articles and make them open.However
I have the provision to freely share the pdf full text if you are interested in reading the
article.
rakesh