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Highlights from the 2001 Progress Report
In 2001, the Centre secured opportunities confirming its leadership in
the domain of evidence-based health informatics.
Hundreds of users now access customized integrated desktops developed by
the Centre. These are delivered over the internet from CHE servers. The
technology has been installed in hospitals, offices, and homes across
Alberta and Canada, and in locations in the US, Europe, and Hong Kong.
Further highlights:
- A staff retreat led to a clearer vision for the future
- The CHE began the year by welcoming a full-time Program Coordinator
to oversee its projects and interests
- In the spring, a Network Engineer was hired to expand the technical
capabilities of the Centre and manage its growth
- The Centre also hired a new Education and Content Specialist with
experience in teaching evidence-based practice
- The CHE Fellow, Dr. Raymond Leung, extended his expertise to include
personal digital assistants (PDAs) and their function for practicing
clinicians
- Under Dr. Leung’s guidance, the CHE staff began to develop
expertise with PDAs and associated health-related applications
- More evidence-based structured abstracts were developed for resources
used in CHE projects
- The CHE continued to be the only website in the world authorized to
publish the Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice series of
working papers
- Those articles form the basis of the book Users' Guides to
the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical
Practice, for which the CHE developed a CD-ROM product
- In 2001, the Centre developed an interactive version of the
Users' Guides book, including calculators and worksheets, to
be launched early in 2002
- For more information visit http://www.usersguides.org
- In collaboration with the University of Alberta Advanced Technologies
for Learning, the CHE began developing an online instruction guide to
assist CHE project partners who wish to develop virtual learning
communities
- One such partner, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical
Research, joined forces with the Centre resulting in CHE
developing and maintaining the online component of a
province-wide initiative (SEARCH Program)
- The CHE website was completely redesigned and launched in the autumn
- CHE Co-Director Dr. Robert Hayward and staff developed and piloted a
course called Critical Appraisal of the Health Care Literature, being
taught at the University of Alberta in 2002
- Dr. Hayward and staff presented two workshops on teaching evidence-based
medicine at both the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University
For further information on the activities of the CHE, please see the
Projects section of the website.
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