Category Archives: General

AAMC Workshop

Posted on January 9, 2017 by

Everywhere you look in academic medicine today major initiatives are underway that require fundamental changes in the way people work together. Effective teamwork takes a lot more than a group of individuals skillfully carrying out their specialized tasks. It requires … Continue reading →

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Linguamatics Text Mining Summit

Posted on November 7, 2016 by

Last month I attended the Linguamatics Text Mining Summit at the Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod. I took a useful workshop on text mining for healthcare and participated in a roundtable on mining full text. I also heard many … Continue reading →

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5th World Congress of Clinical Safety

Posted on September 26, 2016 by

Last week I attended the International Association of Risk Management in Medicine’s 5th World Congress of Clinical Safety at Harvard Medical School. The Congress theme was Smart Hospitals and Healthcare: Health Care Management & Leadership, Risk, Quality, and Productivity. I … Continue reading →

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Harvard Leadership Institute

Posted on September 8, 2016 by

I recently attended the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians in Cambridge, MA. The Institute was a week-long, thought-provoking educational program that focused on strategies for effective leadership in 21st century academic libraries. The course consisted of readings, lectures, films … Continue reading →

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Academy for Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety

Posted on July 22, 2016 by

In 2004 Dave Mayer, Tim McDonald, Rosemary Gibson, Anne Gunderson and a small number of other thought leaders in patient safety began discussions in the hope that they could redesign medical education in such a way that students, residents and faculty … Continue reading →

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Podcast

Posted on July 8, 2016 by

My recent webinar with Copyright Clearance Center is now a podcast, you can listen to it here – Meet the Informationist

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Text Mining Webinar

Posted on June 13, 2016 by

Using Text Mining to Improve Patient Care 24-Jun-2016 — 9:00 AM EDT / 3:00 PM CEST In this one-hour webinar hosted by Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), presenters Jonathan Hartmann, Senior Clinical Informationist and Head of Data Management at Georgetown University … Continue reading →

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