Compendium is a hypertext concept mapping tool which can be used as an individual or group tool to model problems, and capture discussions. Compendium is about sharing ideas, creating artifacts, making things together, and breaking down the boundaries between dialogue, artifact, knowledge, and data.

This tool supports the Compendium methodology for Dialogue Mapping and collaborative visual modelling, as described on the Compendium Institute website

Architecture as system

Enterprise-architecture, service-architecture and the Viable System Model

Tom Graves : Tetradian Consulting
January 2007

Audience
– enterprise architects, service architects, operations
strategists, process analysts, IT-systems analysts
• Objective
– increase business take-up of enterprise architecture
– demonstrate tools to review service-architecture
• Agenda
– extend enterprise-architecture beyond IT-systems
– extend service-architecture across all service types
– use ‘systems-theory’ tools to improve services
– business benefits of extended architecture

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1Badillo, I., 2Tejeida, R., 3Morales, O.
1,2,3 Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México.

ABSTRACT
The Viable System Model (VSM) is recursive and helps explaining the general production management model of the ERP system. The recursion level explains the development
starting from warehouse management to Material Requirement Planning (MRP), to Manufactory Requirement Planning (MRPII), to Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), and
to Supply Chain Management (SCM).
In each recursion level, the emergent concepts helps explaining the discovery of the two categories of demand: independent demand and dependent demand, the feedback concept
helps explaining the closed cycles in ERP, the local, future and total environment concept helps explaining the interactions between the market and the Production System and the
Law of requisite variety helps to manage complexity.

learns what you care about and alerts you when there’s new information on those subjects…

I’ve been using Particls in Beta for about 2 months now and am completely sold on it! They reached a new milestone today … Public Beta… Congratulations to Chris and all the gang …

What makes Particls different?

From News
Readers – Particls is not a newsreader, it is an alerts platform.

This means that information is displayed ‘while you work on other things’ in a heads-up-display presentation style. In this way users can keep working while staying informed.

• The Operating Room Dashboard
  (tags: medical dashboard operating)

In Technology For Doctors Issie Rabinovitch passes on common sense suggestions to improve security on EMR systems:
http://www.canhealth.com/doctors.html#D06octstory2

In CanadianEMR there is a whole section devoted to disussion Exam Room configurations and set up of the equipment for EMR systems in primary care settings.  Everthing from screen orientation (whether to allow direct view by the patient) to hardware brackets for mounting the computer is open game in this section of the site….many worthwhile hints from pioneer implementors can be found at:
http://emruser.typepad.com/canadianemr/b_exam_room_configurations/index.html

Available from the Medical Records Institute (pdf) is their latest annual survey of  EHR Trends and Usage which reveals insights into the:

You can fiind it at: http://www.medrecinst.com/survey/2006/download.asp

Alan Brookstone has posted an interesting piece in CanadianEMR where he discusses the exipration of the Alberta Physician Office System Program (POSP). As he indicates:

Here in BC the nascent Physician Information Technology (PITO) program is still largely underwraps … but Physicians are being told to wait… to not buy either hardware or software until the program is fully underway or they may not be eligible for funding if their choice turns out not to be on the PITO qualified EMR vendor list when it finally comes out.