CI 101: Community Informatics as General Education

First 101 Robotic General Surgery Cases in a Community Hospital

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The general surgeon's robotic learning curve may improve if the experience is classified into categories based on the complexity of the procedures in a small community hospital. The intraoperative time should decrease and the incidence of complications should be comparable to conventional laparoscopy. The learning curve of a single robotic general surgeon in a small co...

A Doctrine of Cognitive Informatics (CI)

Yingxu Wang∗ University of Calgary, Canada, [email protected] James A. Anderson: Brown University, USA Christine Chan, Yiyu Yao, : University of Regina, Canada Witold Kinsner: University of Manitoba, Canada Jean-Claude Latombe: Stanford University, USA Dilip Patel: London South Bank University, UK Witold Pedrycz: University of Alberta, Canada Philip Sheu: University of California, Irvine, USA ...

Community informatics as innovation in sociotechnical infrastructures

Community Informatics

Community informatics is an emerging field focusing primarily on the interaction between local communities and information technologies and a more particular focus within social informatics. It is rooted in library practice, most notably the outreach that led to information and referral (I&R) services, as well as other innovative practices, for example the community technology center and the co...

The general practitioner and community health education.