Gladstone as John Morley Saw Him

George Rosen as I knew him.

T was a gray Baltimore morning in April 1942 when I first met George Rosen in the Johns Hopkins Institute. We 'clicked' immediately. Being both devotees of medical history we talked for hours almost exclusively about our adored subject; strangely enough neither about our careers (as it behooves colleagues) nor about world politics, though at that moment it breathed heavily down all our necks. I...

The Michelson - Morley Experiment as a Case Study in Validation

We use the Michelson-Morley experiment as a case study in validation based on current knowledge. We use standard mathematical concepts of error analysis to develop measures of merit. In order to fully understand the case study, we review philosophical concepts, focusing on scientific confirmation. We review confirmation to understand formal logical concepts that can be used. We then propose a l...

Redefining HIM leadership: toward an HIM leadership framework: a commentary on HIM leadership.

Leadership is one of the most examined human behavioral phenomena. While leadership appears easy to see, it remains difficult to define. Despite the abundance of leadership theories and widely known experts, there are no generally accepted definitions of leadership. The challenge of redefining health information management (HIM) leadership is compounded by the ongoing changes in HIM and the cri...

TheMichelson-Morley Experiment

Picture: Smithsonian Institution Dibner Library Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Michelson arrived as a child in the United States in 1855. From 1869 to 1881 he served in the marines, eventually as an instructor in physics. He undertook his postgraduate study in Berlin and Paris. Starting in 1880, and collaborating later with E.W. Morley, Michelson developed precise experiments to investigat...

Linda Best: My New Life as a HIM in Geneva.