Charles (Chuk) Plante

FWIW Fine, go ahead and be mean and angry to other consenting adults but it's not what I want with my morning coffee.

Scrolled my Bluesky feed and searched a few topics I'm interested in. Still too many people being mean and angry (although more left than on Twitter) and not enough reporting on constructive things they are doing in other places. Hope this rebalances as the platform grows.

Indicators for assessing the interoperability of health data in Canada [See related article at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.241123][1] KEY POINTS In Canada, federal, provincial, and territorial governments have embarked on a major effort to improve the interopera...

Wolfson proposes an interesting set of indicators for assessing progress. Interesting because of how they distill so much—a bit like how GDP does for economic performance. www.cmaj.ca/content/196/...

This line stood out:

The Connected Care for Canadians Act: an important step toward interoperability of health data [See related article at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.241351][1] KEY POINTS In June 2024, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-72[1][2] ([Box 1][3]) requiring that health information tech...

A couple of important articles about health data interoperability and sharing in Canada in the latest CMAJ including this one: www.cmaj.ca/content/196/....

Been away from microblogging for awhile now (for obvious reasons). Gosh did I miss this sort of thing. A report from somewhere I would never look and an informative thread about it.

I told Bluesky I was interested in books, writers, and science, and so far, so good.

I used to use Twitter to follow what my academic colleagues were working on. Shall we try again? Calling all poverty and social policy researchers.