Everyone, including patients, doctors, nurses and other health professionals and app developers, is invited to submit new ideas of health apps and online maps they think would be useful.

For the next six weeks, people can visit maps and apps and suggest favourite apps, ideas for apps or health maps they would like to see, as well as vote for their favourite ideas submitted by others.

In the video below Dr Shaibal Roy explains more about apps and how you can get involved.

The call for ideas, suggestions and votes for apps or health maps come under one of these five themes:

• Personalisation and choice of care and support: for example, an app that allows a user to search for health information online
• Better health and care outcomes: for example, an app that allows a patient to manage their health condition
• Autonomy and accountability: for example, an app that allows patients to publicly rate and review their local health services
• Improving public health: for example, an app that tracks an individual’s levels of exercise
• Improving long-term care and support: for example, an app that helps with planning long-term care and support

Examples of existing apps that benefits patients include:

• Choosing Well app from NHS Yorkshire and Humber, gives addresses of the nearest NHS services
• Paediatric Emergency Drugs app developed by Evelina Children’s Hospital helps calculate correct medicine dosage;
• iBreastCheck, Breakthrough Breast Cancer – gives information about checking breasts for abnormalities;
• MicroGuide, NHS Southampton – gives practical support to clinicians when treating patients with infections;

This e-learning programme sets out to help front line social workers gain a basic understanding of the principles and practice of knowledge management, as well as organise and manage their knowledge and information as effectively as possible.

Modules include:

A day in the life
Day to day work contexts for knowledge in a professional practice, deciding how useful different sources of knowledge are.

Types of knowledge
The knowledge cycle and framework

How do I organise my knowledge?
Explores the different ways in which knowledge may be organised and accessed

When knowledge gaps occur
Strategies for managing deficiencies in organising and managing knowledge

Sharing knowledge in teams
Strategies for improving knowledge managing in teams

Using technology to improve knowledge sharing
Choosing appropriate technology from the range available

Knowledge beyond the team
Approaches to locating external knowledge resources and building a personal list

Knowledge is our business
Identifying the culture enabling knowledge sharing

Social care 2.0 – Innovation through technology
Web 2.0 and user centred practice

Google says,

“You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor … To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior.”

Well the Surepoint team have signed up to roadtest App Inventor and we’ll be reporting back on what we found very soon.

This 60-second video gives you a flavour of how quick and easy it is to build an app for your phone.

This radical shake up of the NHS will impact on many Surepoint clients. To help us make sense of this we have tried to capture the new landscape in the mindmap below. There’s an expadable / collapsible version in the Mindjet Player window and a fully expanded version in the Scribd window.

• Download White Paper: Equity and excellence liberating the NHS (PDF, 720K)
• Download analytical strategy for the White Paper and associated documents (PDF, 117K)
• Download initial equality impact assessment (PDF, 150K)
• Secretary of State’s statement to the House of Commons, 12 July 2010
• Press release, 12 July 2010

I came across some interesting applications to analyze the content of the tweets using common #tags

• Analysis of the emerging themes from #henleykm tweets http://tweetmotif.com/#%23henleykm using Tweetmotif
• Sentiment analysis of #henleykm tweets using Stanford graduate application Twitter Sentiment http://twittersentiment.appspot.com/search?query=%23henleykm

Here at Surepoint we are going to continue to research this area. In the meatime do let us know if you have used or developed applications for analysing tweets based on common #tags.

The animation is the result of collaboration beween University of Ottawa Centre for e-Learning and Bellanet to create a series of e-Learning modules designed to strengthen knowledge sharing within networks, organizations, and individuals. Find out more at http://www.saea.uottawa.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=682&Itemid=649

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No More Consultants

From the inside cover: We know more than we think. This is the book that will help you to think more about what you know, and save you money along the way. No More Consultants takes you on journey through insight, improvement and innovation. With inspiring stories and expert advice from the their years of experience in helping organisations to value their own experience and reduce their dependency on consultants, the authors chart a course towards an engaged workforce and a successful business.

The animation below explains more.

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Chris and Geoff have set up a social network on Ning http://nomoreconsultants.ning.com/ to help bring interested minds together.

You can find out more Chris and Geoffon their websites:

• Geoff Parcell – Practical KM Ltd
• Chris Collison – Knowledgeable Ltd

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How to access the statistics and data

Visit a video on YouTube e.g. NHS Choices Chage4life video

If the owner of the video has chosen to make the statistics and data public you will see a link to Statistics & Data. This will reveal data such as below

However as the owner of a video you get to dig even deeper into the statistics and data. Click on the link to More Insight Statistics

This will load the screen below which gives you access to detailed reporting with adjustable time range selection. This offers a whole range of reporting tools including:

• A chart of views over time
• Demographics information about who is watching the video
• A visual color coded map showing the countries your video was viewed in
• The popularity of the video relative to those of other uploaders

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