Transparency in Decision Modelling: What, Why, Who and How?

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

The ICCC - Why, What, How and Who

The path to 1984-0 depended on computer communication technology being applied to grotesque purposes. A way to avoid treading the 1984 and the ICCC same path would be to have the alternatives along the way illuminated, assessed, compared and de-George Orwell wrote his famous social-science bated on as broad a basis as possible. That's what fiction novel in 1948, presumably determining the the I...

Aging, Pensions and Long-term Care: What, Why, Who, How?; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

Japan has been aging faster than other industrialized nations, and its experience offers useful lessons to others. Japan has been willing to expand its welfare state with a long-term care (LTC) insurance to finance home care and nursing home care for frail elderly. As Ikegami shows, it created new facilities and expanded specialized staffing for home care, developed a c...

User Modelling in I-Help: What, Why, When and How

This paper describes user modelling in I-Help, a system to facilitate communication amongst learners. There are two I-Help components: Private and Public Discussions. In the Private Discussions learners take part in a one-on-one interaction with a partner (possibly a peer). The Public Discussions are open everyone in the group has access to all discussion forums relevant to that group. The Publ...

Faculty development: who, what, why, where, when, and how?

Developing people — helping them become more capable, conscientious, and confident — is the fundamental mission of any academic institution. It is what they do and why they exist. At health professions colleges and schools, faculty members spend much of their time communicating the accumulated knowledge, skills, and values of the profession and providing structured opportunities for learners to...