Aug 14 2008
Papers
Here are some of my Papers
Opening Chapter (co-authored with Rob Kolodner) in : Person-Centered Health Records : Toward HealthePeople, by James E. Demetriades (Editor), Robert M. Kolodner (Editor), Gary A. Christopherson (Editor), Springer-Verlag, 2005
| World Wide Web and the Demise of the Clockwork Universe | Presented at the 1994 World Wide Web Conference in Chicago. Stumbling upon the web and the Santa Fe Institute at the same time was quite a convergence. |
| Jubilation Deficiency Disorder | I wrote this after working with artist/sculptor/philosopher James T. Hubbell, and read his essay, The Architecture of Jubilation |
| Nothing is Missing | This came out of a 1981 trip to Japan, looking for connection between Japanese and American thinking; written after a return in 1998. |
| Web Watch Columns | A set of weekly columns written in 1995 for the San Diego Daily Transcript |
| Creating an Epidemic of Health | August 1995 US Medicine article written with Heather Wood Ion which first discussed Jonas Salk’s concept of an Epidemic of Health |
| From DHCP to Vision for Change | March 1997 US Medicine article discussing technology dealing with VA’s “Vision for Change” initiative |
| From Hospitals to Communities | November 1995 US Medicine article discussing the notion of scale and change of focus from hospitals to communities |
| Presentation in Santa Cruz, Ca. | Some ideas about connectivity and global transformation presented to a group working on Augmented Social Networks in Santa Cruz, Ca. June 22, 2001 |
These are some papers I’ve written for the Department of Veterans Affairs:
| HealthSpace (139kb) | January, 1998 | Some early thoughts on the notion of creating a “space” rather than a “system” of health. |
| Some Applications of Complexity Theory to Health Care (93kb) | December, 1998 | Discusses the concepts of Dee Hock’s “Chaordic” thinking to health care, as well as general complexity theory issues |
| Shared Meaning and Health Informatics (70kb) | January, 1999 | Discusses some of the challenges of overspecific standards efforts, as well as some of the underlying philosophies. |
| Concepts of the Data Vault (57kb) | February, 1999 | Introduces the notion of a personal data vault as a key component of a personal health space per patient. |
| From Enterprise to Person-Centric Health Information Systems(54kb) | April, 1999 | Discusses the shift from enterprise-based health care to person-centric. |
| Health as a Medium (241kb) | May, 1999 | Portrays health as a medium, and many health problems as a “failure to communicate.” |
| Personalizing Health (107kb) | June, 1999 | Discusses the issues of personalization at several levels |
| Steps towards an Epidemic of Health (95kb) | July, 1999 | Discusses some of the initial conditions required to create an epidemic of health. |
| Design Patterns for Health (461kb) | August, 1999 | Explores the application of architect/philosopher Christopher Alexander’s ideas to health |
| New Health and the New Economy (67kb) | October, 1999 | Compares a new vision of health with the “New Rules of the New Economy” book by Kevin Kelly |
| Rethinking Complexity (63kb) | November, 1999 | Discusses issues of complexity and how to circumvent them using “space” metaphor. |
| Health and the Devil’s Staircase (45kb) | January, 2000 | Applies fractal thinking to health |
| Systemic Issues of Patient Safety (208kb) | March, 2000 | Introduces a spectrum of scales to think about health, relates this to the notion of patient safety. |
| Tipping an Epidemic of Health (95kb) | May, 2000 | Discusses why the connectivity provided by the Internet is on the verge of creating an epidemic of health |
| Ensembles and Transformations (23kb) | July, 2000 | Introduces ensembles as communities of interest which provide a context for transformations. |
| Health and Positive Discourse (109kb) | August, 2000 | Examines notions of Appreciative Inquiry, positive discourse, and optimism in light of Internet technology |
| Flipping from Negative to Positive Discourse (25k) | September, 2000 | Examines the effects of negative discourse, how naming a problem can make it worse, and examples of positive discourse. |
| Assumptions of the Transactional Health Model | October, 2000 | Examines some of the assumptions of the transactional model of health, such as linearity, the economics of scarcity, and deficit discourse. |
| A Transformational Notion of Health | November, 2000 | Discusses transformational concepts in health, flipping assumptions of the above transformational model |
| New Perspectives | July, 2001 | Discusses the inversion of enterprise/person relationship, complementary currencies, and HailStorm architecture(.pdf) (html) |
| Towards a language of Health (122K) | Nov, 2001 | Proposes Genos, a language which would allow expression of health and genomic information for clinical use. (html) (pdf) |
| Can Health Care IT Adapt? (800K) | Jan, 2002 | Discusses issues for adaptation in our information technology infrastructure, in light of prospective advances in Genomics and Proteomics (html) |
| From Systems to Spaces | June, 2002 | A space-based metaphor for patient health information systems (htm) (pdf) |
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