capstone slide 6

Note: To really appreciate what you can get on a "mobile-phone" now, take a look at Yahoo's new "Go" service and their video tour.


Changes:
* Tremendous reduction in size, increase in power.
* Much nicer packaging - now "wearable" and wireless
* Change from "do computations" to "support collaboration"
At the same time
* supercomputers went from 1 big box to an interconnected grid of thousands of small boxes - because it works better
* programs to solve very hard problems went from 1 huge program with very complex logic to thousands of collaborating rules or sub-programs - because it works better and, in fact, can learn to solve problems that the program author could not!
* Artificial intelligence went from a huge complex logic to thousands of small rules, for the same reason -- because it works better.
* It's not just a box, you're talking to the world on the web
* It's not just the web, it's "Web-2" -- you don't just read it, you can write it as well, like Wikipedia.
* This has changed tremendously in the last 5 years. Time to update your concept of what "computing" and "informatics" is about.
* The key is "technology mediated collaboration" not "databases" or "communication" or "computerized physician order entry systems" or "electronic health records" or even "personal health records."

These are no longer "shared data storage and retrieval" systems where the problem is indexing and maybe a little, annoying "decision-support" is included but typically shut off because it is annoying.

These are "collaborative decision-making systems" where ease of successful collaboration is the first and primary objective, and the "patient" is the one running the show and collaborating with his or her support network.

That network includes clinical caregivers as just one minor component. Mostly, this is about a person managing her life, not about a doctor managing patient visits and reimbursement coding.

* University of Michigan School of Information now offers the world's first graduate course in "Social Computing" this year.

The man proudly demonstrating his computer in the year 1952 in the picture above the left is Roger Schuette, my uncle. (see slide 2 for more info). Here's a December 2006 article that mentions him from the Rockford Register Star, Dec 14, 2006.



And here's the detail blown up to be readable.



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