Monday, November 06, 2006

Will Health Practitioners Blog?

Will Health Practitioners Blog?

Deborah Swain
dswain@nccu.edu

Pilot study to see if used
if they share explicit and tacit knowledge
if blogs fit in a public health informatics framework
if leads to medical error collection and process improvement?

Study consisted of:
Student Nurses (23 users)
One month (10 frequent users)
Learning Environment
Blog on reserved space server with security

Topics picked – support please, Challenging patients, help finding a job, hob contacts, medications, NCLEX Exam, patient rights, public, test reviews, uncategorized

Qualitative Data Analysis

Over 30 postings / week

Research Classifications of postings
Concerns and curiosity about the tool and blogging as an activity
Medical topics of interest to the bloggers
General learning and sharing of professional news and advice

Wanted to verify repeated process of information flow
Wanted to see sense of community
Became a learning organization
Temporary COP

Validation
Need to promote error reporting
Apply lessons learned
Protect privacy
Ensure integrity
Encourage new media
Validated use of blogs in health informatics
Need to establish a level of trust for sharing
Kept actual names private

Did a Social Network analysis on the data

Had a couple of active hubs in the blogsphere
Facilitator recommended
New Project with Health Practitioners
Survey, build, focus group, open house, e-home with bolgs and wikis
David Kirby Dave@kirbyimc.com

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