Improving science education: It’s not rocket science—it’s harder!

Knowledge management - not rocket science

Purpose – To provide a broad understanding of knowledge management and how to successfully implement knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach – Using a wide range of technical, business and knowledge management-specific sources to explain the value and importance of knowledge management and the relative simplicity of the concept, the paper is divided into sections providing a definitio...

Improving office practice: working smarter, not harder.

T he primary care visit is becoming increasingly complex and increasingly frustrating for many physicians. For me, the struggles began more than a decade ago. The 1995 version of Medicare’s evaluation and management (E/M) documentation guidelines had just been released, with all their complexities and legal consequences. The number of clinical practice guidelines was ballooning, and I felt r...

Innovation: needed, but not rocket science.

Improving science education worldwide.

Steven Oppenheimer, Editor of Acta histochemica, was awarded student interested in trying her or his hand at research. I believe if a 2009 U.S. Presidential Award based on the work presented in his Essay on Improving Science Education Worldwide after selection by the National Science Foundation and the White House. The presentation of the award by President Obama was made in the Blue Room of th...

Managing leg ulcers – it ’ s not rocket science

A leg ulcer is generally considered to be a wound with tissue loss on the lower leg, including the foot, which has not healed within four to six weeks of injury or opening of the wound. Internationally chronic venous insufficiency is the causative aetiology for 50% of all leg ulcers, with mixed venous/arterial disease accounting for up to another 20% of ulcers. Arterial ulcers, diabetic ulcers ...