Sentient, yet imprisoned by self-gratification to a disabling substance that led to an abnormal mindset, author Brian Dixon arrived at an unintended location and was held captive longer than expected. Feeling like a king dethroned, he panted for the water of life to be repositioned on the throne provisioned by God. In Deliverance through the Window of My Mind, Dixon shares snapshots of his life, from his birth to the present day. He focuses on his addiction to crack cocaine and how it was ...

This books provides content that arms clinicians with the core knowledge and competencies necessary to be effective informatics leaders in health care organizations. The content is drawn from the areas recognized by the American Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) as necessary to prepare physicians to become Board Certified in Clinical Informatics. Clinical informaticians transform health care by analyzing, designing, selecting, implementing, managing, and evaluating information ...

This completely updated study guide textbook is written to support the formal training required to become certified in clinical informatics. The content has been extensively overhauled to introduce and define key concepts using examples drawn from real-world experiences in order to impress upon the reader the core content from the field of clinical informatics.The book groups chapters based on the major foci of the core content: health care delivery and policy; clinical decision-ma...

This 3rd edition of a classic textbook examines the context and background of public health informatics, explores the technology and science underlying the field, discusses challenges and emerging solutions, reviews many key public health information systems, and includes practical, case-based studies to guide the reader through the topic. The editors have expanded the text into new areas that have become important since publication of the previous two editions due to changing technologies...

For all who want to build a life that abounds with connection, friendship, purpose, and meaningful success, Brian Dixon presents a simple yet profound mantra: Start with Your People.It can be easy to become task-oriented, focusing on the goals ahead of us and checking off our to-do lists rather than focusing on the people in our lives. Entrepreneur and business coach Brian Dixon knows firsthand, and after one too many burned bridges and fa...

For all who want to build a life that abounds with connection, friendship, purpose, and meaningful success, Brian Dixon presents a simple yet profound mantra: Start with Your People.It can be easy to become task-oriented, focusing on the goals ahead of us and checking off our to-do lists rather than focusing on the people in our lives. Entrepreneur and business coach Brian Dixon knows firsthand, and after one too many burned bridges and fa...

Philosophy through Design proposes a new approach to design practice grounded in a philosophical reflection in and on action, with alignments being drawn to the democratic pragmatism of John Dewey and Jane Addams as well as key contemporary philosophic perspectives. Throughout, Dixon stresses the need for designers to engage critically, ethically and reflectively as they seek to meet the complex challenges of the 21st century. The key argument is that design practice can itself be...

Drawing from the work of Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, this book aims to relate a series of philosophic insights to the practice of engaging in design research for change.These insights are explored and presented as a set of potential strategies for grounding transformative design research within an intellectual context which both embraces and celebrates experience, process and uncertainty. Chapter by chapter, through theory, practical examples and case studies, an accessible ...

It is estimated that Local, Provincial and Federal Governments in Canada purchase approximately more than 40% of all the goods and services consumed in Canada. Sadly only a minority of Canadian Businesses bid on government offerings. The subject of government procurement can become fairly complex. This book titled "Win Business in all Three Levels of Canadian Government" takes a lot of the complexity out of the process. It lists how to register as a potential supplier, what supplier conduc...

Health Information Exchange (HIE): Navigating and Managing a Network of Health Information Systems allows health professionals to appropriately access, and securely share, patients' vital medical information electronically, thus improving the speed, quality, safety, and cost of patient care. The book presents foundational knowledge on HIE, covering the broad areas of technology, governance, and policy, providing a concise, yet in-depth, look at HIE that can be used as a teaching tool for u...

Over the last four decades, John Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy has formed an intellectual core in design research, underpinning Donald Schön’s theory of reflective practice, the experiential perspective in HCI and the democratic commitments of participatory design. Taking these existing connections as a starting point, Brian Dixon explores how deeper alignments may be drawn between Dewey’s insights and contemporary design research’s concern with practice, meaning and collaboration. Chapter...

President Lincoln’s Cottage is a home for brave ideas, not only because of what Lincoln accomplished within the walls, but because of the conversations that happen there every day. On April 10, 2015, the Cottage was proud to host the first annual Lincoln Ideas Forum, the first in a series of events hosted to commemorate the 150 anniversary of Lincoln’s last visit to the Cottage and his assassination the next day. The Forum featured groundbreaking discussions, with experts from a variety of...