Category Archives: maybe
Finding and Working with Health Assets
There’s a new concept abroad in health policy circles – ‘health assets’. Senior health policy leads are developing ideas for an Assets Alliance, which may figure at a location near you any time quite soon. ALISS has been lucky enough … Continue reading
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Ranting – in a good way
We’re going to be looking for ways to gather opinions and ideas during the project. Quick video clips could be a great way to capture these – something like Tole-rants which just launched to give a voice to ideas around … Continue reading
More on SI Camp
Well, OK, the ALISS ideas didn’t make it to the Camp this June But the process of having to collate the ideas into a couple of wee pitches has already been useful, and it wouldn’t have happened otherwise. In any … Continue reading
Camping – it's that time of year
In the middle (19-21st.) of June, something called a Social Innovation Camp is taking place, in the middle of Glasgow. What is this you ask? It’s where social change meets technology. Have good ideas, build stuff collaboratively in no time at … Continue reading
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Sense-making and ALISS
I felt that there hadn’t been any writing on this aspect of our envisaged architecture yet, so here’s a start at filling this particular gap: a typical source of local information Let’s assume that some hunter-gathering has taken place, perhaps … Continue reading
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Crawling around on the web
We’ve been putting a certain amount of effort lately into thinking about how to recruit an army of hunter-gatherers, using the recent publication of the Experiences & Outcomes to be expected from the Curriculum for Excellence, as a sort of … Continue reading
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a thought on data-sources
One of the project’s valuable Critical Friends sent me a note the other day, after a discussion on where we envisaged acquiring our content from, at the Project Board in March. She had been “…wondering if this [end-user contribution] is … Continue reading
The social experience of searching for, finding and using resources – keeping up to date with what you've found
In any project, questions about scope keep on surfacing. I know full well how easy it is for the thing to expand (until in the proverbial project balloon, you are faced with rising ground (a deadline that is inescapable) and … Continue reading
The 'Long' in Long-Term Conditions
Have we tended to think over much about the initial(?) search, following diagnosis? What happens afterwards, when services need adjusting, perhaps when the person with an LTC deteriorates, and another complication arises? Where does what we’re thinking about shade over … Continue reading
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Transitions along a pathway – diagnosis, search, and beyond
Of course, partner-colleagues have done loads of work on patient pathways (which we should celebrate, link to, and support) but it was still an insight-prompting moment when Andy described his own mental move from the diagnosis (rheumatoid arthritis) to the … Continue reading
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