MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'information overload'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:22:16 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5158992&cid=t_152985_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmanaging-information-overload-in-the-age-of-unlimited-information%2F2011.08.25 Perhaps the biggest challenges facing the next generation of physicians is information overload.  The problem: Unlimited information on limited human bandwidth.  There’s simply too much to read and see.  For physicians the problem is compounded by a perceived responsibility to keep up. But the idea that we actually can have our hands around everything is reflective of a time when doctors actually could know all there was to know.  Many of today’s physicians were raised at a time when a paper inbox and a pile of journals represented their only information inputs.  But things are very different now. Here are a few ideas on controlling your inputs: (more…) *This blog post was originally published at 33 Charts* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5158992 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:15:32 +0100 5158992 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934549&cid=t_152985_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2Furd0ifGFTWU%2F Very interesting new study on computerized cognitive training (or brain training), well summarized in LA Times article Memory training improves intelligence in some children, report says. Quote: The training program used by Jaeggi and co-workers focused on ramping up working memory: the ability to hold in mind a handful of information bits briefly, and to update them as needed. Cognitive scientists consider working memory a key component of intelligence. But they have long debated whether strengthening short-term memory capacity will boost a person’s overall intellectual function, and will do so even after the brain-training sessions are over. It can, and it does, according to this new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The full study, Short-term... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934549 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:55:54 +0100 4934549 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4828813&cid=t_152985_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F11%2Fhealth-experts-patient-advocates-beware-10-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-be-a-curator-at-organized-wisdom%2F Last year I aired my concern about Organized Wisdom in a post called Expert Curators, WisdomCards & The True Wisdom of @organizedwisdom. Organized Wisdom shares health links of health experts or advocates, who (according to OW’s FAQ), either requested a profile or were recommended by OW’s Medical Review Board. I was one of those so called Expert Curators. However, [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4828813 Tue, 10 May 2011 23:28:18 +0100 4828813 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4813210&cid=t_152985_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F11%2Fhealth-experts-patient-advocates-beware-10-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-be-a-curator-at-organized-wisdom%2F Last year I aired my concern about Organized Wisdom in a post called Expert Curators, WisdomCards & The True Wisdom of @organizedwisdom. Organized Wisdom shares health links of health experts or advocates, who (according to OW’s FAQ), either requested a profile or were recommended by OW’s Medical Review Board. I was one of those so called Expert Curators. However, [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4813210 Tue, 10 May 2011 23:28:18 +0100 4813210 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4771210&cid=t_152985_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F30%2F8-ways-to-make-technology-less-stressful%2F Photo credit: Summer Beretsky Whatever you do, DO NOT think of an elephant right now! Seriously. Don’t think about elephants, or big floppy elephant ears, or elephants at circuses, or elephants in the wild. Now, be honest: you totally just thought of an elephant. Didn’t you? That’s exactly how I felt all week when I tried to stay away from the internet. When I opted to spend a week away from the internet and other technological devices, I expected my brief affair with the IRL (“in real life”) world to whisk me away into romantic oblivion. Sadly, that was not the case. Instead, I spent a lot of offline time thinking about the technology that I was sorely missing…and about the stress it invites into my life. The constantly-updating Twitter feeds, the myri... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4771210 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:48:26 +0100 4771210 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4723754&cid=t_152985_86_f&fid=34445&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwomenshealthnews.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F17%2Fsunday-news-round-up-not-intended-to-be-a-factual-statement-edition%2F Actually, the round-up is not a joke – but I have been cracking up at Stephen Colbert’s response (and the resulting tweets) to Republican John Kyl’s way, way off statement on the Senate floor that >90% of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion (it’s more like 3%), and his spokesperson’s response, when Kyl was called on the error, that it “was not intended to be a factual statement.” [more via Know Your Meme] At Our Bodies Our Blog, some discussion of “opiate babies” as the new “crack babies,” with all of the problematic media coverage and decentering of women’s stories and experiences that implies. Also, OBOS is looking for individuals who might want to be on the cover of the 40th anniversary edition of the book,... Women's Health News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4723754 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:12:13 +0100 4723754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4455368&cid=t_152985_125_f&fid=37825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbibbynews.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F09%2Flearn-how-to-conquer-information-overload%2F Bibby Library is offering a workshop to introduce you to tools that will keep you informed about new information in dentistry. DATE:    Tuesday, March 1 TIME:    12:00-1pm PLACE:  Ely Room During this workshop you will learn how to: Create alerts for Pubmed saved searches Monitor websites and blogs using an RSS reader Create Google Alerts [...] (Source: Bibby Library News and Tips) Bibby Library News and Tips blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4455368 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:14:01 +0100 4455368 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4155263&cid=t_152985_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fits-not-filter-failure-its-discovery.html Great Lessig styl'ish presentation @Cameron."Don’t think about filtering.Don’t think about control.Enable discovery."I simply agree, and we need more "need alignment" discussions and sufficient resources for making this possible! Aka, I consider a discovery deficit as a lack of enabling true network building and network maintenance scenarios.It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.View more presentations from Cameron Neylon.For related posts see alsoFOAF - a decentralized solution for knowledge=people+informationSocial media and science personalities, let us align our needs and ensure building relationshipsInnovation 2.0, especially in drug designInformation overload is a challenge we have to work on in science, e.g. via Enterprise 2.0 strategiesOnly, if we work on all of tho... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4155263 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:01:00 +0100 4155263 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4036590&cid=t_152985_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F06%2Fhow-will-we-ever-keep-up-with-75-trials-and-11-systematic-reviews-a-day%2F An interesting paper was published in PLOS Medicine [1]. As an information specialist and working part time for the Cochrane Collaboration* (see below), this topic is close to my heart. The paper, published in PLOS Medicine is written by Hilda Bastian and two of my favorite EBM devotees ànd critics, Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers. Their article gives [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4036590 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:45:04 +0100 4036590 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3331245&cid=t_152985_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F04%2Fsearching-skills-toolkit-finding-the-evidence-book-review%2F Most books on Evidence Based Medicine give little attention to the first two steps of EBM: asking focused answerable questions and searching the evidence. Being able to appraise an article, but not being able to find the best evidence may be challenging and frustrating to the busy clinicians. “Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding The Evidence” is a [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3331245 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:18:19 +0100 3331245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2943865&cid=t_152985_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F30%2Fpsychotherapists-unmasked-in-the-age-of-information%2F Five years ago I was having lunch with my father, a psychiatrist of almost 45 years. He was curious to know how I was getting such a full client load being a new therapist. I explained my website was coming up high in search engine rankings for my area and that these days people search for most things online, including therapists. He cocked his head slightly and looked at me suspiciously. “Do you put your picture on your website?” he asked. When I told him that I did, he about fell out of his chair and went on a rant about how inappropriate this is, likening it to taking an ad out in the yellow pages of a phone book. Initially I felt deeply criticized and offended by what my father had said. But upon further reflection, I “got it.” My dad comes from a very different time in the ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2943865 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:17:58 +0100 2943865 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2510888&cid=t_152985_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fdo-drug-innovation-while-information.html People thought always drug design is rational. Nowadays, things might have changed (maybe) ... and technology alone is not the solution. IT might support collaboration and information management, but we need seriously (a timely) action of legal advisors on supporting democratic-action and intellectual-property-protection.Nova Spivack has posted the interesting idea that the number of questions is faster growing than the number of answers. This forces us to ignore more facts, which leads us away from rational decision making, if we are not collaborating. I think, he has the point that in some areas we are facing bounded rationality in phases of a work process. On the other hand, I am willing to ignore information about the south of orion and rather read another drug design paper instead. Th... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2510888 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:27:00 +0100 2510888 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2286142&cid=t_152985_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fdo-drug-innovation-while-information.html People thought always drug design is rational. Nowadays, things might have changed (maybe) ... and technology alone is not the solution. IT might support collaboration and information management, but we need seriously (a timely) action of legal advisors on supporting democratic-action and intellectual-property-protection.Nova Spivack has posted the interesting idea that the number of questions is faster growing than the number of answers. This forces us to ignore more facts, which leads us away from rational decision making, if we are not collaborating. I think, he has the point that in some areas we are facing bounded rationality in phases of a work process. On the other hand, I am willing to ignore information about the south of orion and rather read another drug design paper instead. Th... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2286142 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:27:00 +0100 2286142 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2112542&cid=t_152985_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fcollaboration-bullseye-20-information.html "Using the Internet today is like trying to use a library where all the books have been dumped on the floor and the lights turned out." [A.J. Vendeland, 1996]"A metaphor I use to describe the Internet and now web, how it is organized, and how useful the stuff is that one can find there. My kitchen junk drawer has lots of good useful stuff, mixed in with lots of useless stuff that I have no need for but I have kept anyway, just in case!" [J. C. Neale]This post has two major goals. One is to disentangle the difference between information overload and filter failure in science. The second is to show a potential way-out of both problems.This post was triggered by a controversial discussions, saying that in science information overload IS or IS NOT filter failure.IS - Clay Shirky started the wh... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2112542 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:46:00 +0100 2112542 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1999531&cid=t_152985_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F469469130%2F Karolinska Institute's Dr. Torkel Klingberg has just released in the US his excellent book The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory  The title was first released in Sweden with great success, and our co-founder Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg gave a Foreword to the new US edition. Dr. Klingberg will be writing an essay for SharpBrains readers soon, so we can discuss the importance of this topic and his work in depth. Let me now link to two thought-provoking reviews of the book: Attention Must Be Paid (Inside Higher Ed) - "The weak link in the information age seems to be our human hard-wiring. So one gathers from The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory (Oxford University Press) by Torkel Klingberg, who is a professor of d... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1999531 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:05:18 +0100 1999531 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1407051&cid=t_152985_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F280324023%2F Is there a “vacuum” of information on autism, as Karin Klein writes in today’s Opinion LA? Klein suggests that this “information vacuum” is one reason why, when it comes to autism, “people tend to rush in with theories, wild or otherwise” about the causes of autism (such as these), and especially theories about the supposed “autism epidemic” (which, Klein posits, might be in part the result of “purposeful diagnosis” of autism in children, as autism has become a “ticket to social services”). Or is it rather that there’s too much about autism? Is an overload of information constantly being reported, so that parents have to comb through to find what is useful and accurate? Sometimes I feel that, when it comes ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1407051 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:00:02 +0100 1407051 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=966542&cid=t_152985_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F172118152%2F We often talk in this blog about how to expand fundamental abilities or cognitive functions, like attention, or memory, or emotional self-regulation. Think of them as muscles one can train. Now, it is also important to think of ways one can use our existing muscles more efficiently. Let's talk about how to manage better the overwhelming amount of information available these days. Hundreds of thousands of new books, analyst reports, scientific papers published every year. Millions of websites at our googletips. The flow of data, information and knowledge is growing exponentially, stretching the capacity of our not-so-evolved brains. We can complain all day that we cannot process ALL this flow. Now, let me ask, should we even try? Probably not. Why engage in a losing proposition. Instead... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=966542 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:58:27 +0100 966542