Featured Thoughts, News and Microarticles from the Scientific Community.
Safe Electronic Health Record Use Requires a Comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
Dean Sittig–Feb 2, 2010
1: Ability to report safety events related to use 2: Enhanced certification 3: Self-assessment of 8 aspects of the EHR safe use framework have been addressed 4: On-site, in-person accreditation of EHRs as implemented & used 5: National EHR-related adverse event investigation board that reviews incidents.(View details)Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO): Optimizing Scholarly Literature for Google Scholar & Co.
Jöran Beel–Jan 13, 2010
Have you ever thought about how to get your scientific article into a top position in Google Scholar's result lists? In our article "Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO)" we provide guidelines on how to optimize your research articles for Google Scholar.(View details)
Paul O'Donohoe–Jan 12, 2010
The open access "movement" has existed for decades, but with the coming of the digital age in the 90's it truly bloomed as the distribution cost of electronic media dropped to essentially nothing. Some groups completely embraced the paradigm-shifting...(Read more)
Soenke Bartling–Dec 17, 2009
Two ways: "I will only share this idea if it lead to the desired outcome and if the paper is ready" VS "we share lots of ideas, some spark, some don't, we need to get used to unpredictability. Idea-inventorship could be granted by new publication forms such as tweets or microarticles."(View details)Michael Nentwich–Dec 22, 2009
The Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences just published a research report on the potential of microblogging for science, with a focus on Twitter, in the framework of the project "Interactive Science": Herwig, J...(Read more)
NAA and JFK: Can revisionism take us home?
John Fiorentino–Nov 28, 2009
A rebuttal to a paper by Clifford Spiegelman, et al dealing with the bullet lead evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The rebuttal corrects errors of fact and demonstrates conclusively that the authors use of a Bayes based equation was incomplete and specious.(View details)Soenke Bartling–Nov 19, 2009
Statistical significance ? p<0.05 does NOT mean that my hypothesis is with a probability of 95% correct! It means, that if my hypothesis is wrong the likelihood of my finding would be 5% due to chance. Turning this around is a major mistake, even done by many professionals! (View details)Pelham Mead–Nov 17, 2009
It never ceased to amaze me how many social networking programs have developed in the last few years. Everything from Facebook to Youtube, Wikipedia, and many other networking programs to many to mention have developed to keep people in touch with on...(Read more)
