There's Got To Be A Better Way To Thrive And Succeed In A Knowledge Intense, Dispersed, And Flat World!

1. Mastering the Information
Age in a Flat World
Col (ret) Douglas E. Anderson

2. There's Got To Be A Better Way To Thrive And Succeed
In A Knowledge Intense, Dispersed, And Flat World!

3. This Is A Really Great Product. It Has A Monthly Or Yearly
Subscription

4. Tools You Can Use

5. Document Content Summarizers Cut To The Chase

6. Dragon Naturally Speaking
Can outline whole books or important
areas to free up time for critical
thinking and synthesis of other subject
areas. You do have to adapt. I actually
use a wireless headset and can walk
around freely and dictate

7. Applications Like Google Alerts Can Help You Manage
Information Overload
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Surfing the web is old
school! Google Alerts can
help you do your job faster.
Use Google News to set up alerts on keywords like
“Patient Safety” and get the latest articles sent directly
to your inbox – you choose the frequency.
Visit http://www.google.com/alerts to start.
Image source: http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/2010_04_30_archive.html

8. Google News
General news
Health law
Population health
Medical
ethics

9. FlipBoard
You can flip through the headlines, if you like the topic in
the headlines you can read the full article by tapping on it

10. Zite News Service Learns Your Preferences

11. TrapIt Allows You To Set Up Searches On Topics

12. RSS Feeds, Blogs, E-subscriptions Provide You With Information
Of Interest
• Use e-Subscriptions to get
reports, studies and news.
• E-Subscriptions allow for on-
the-go accessibility
• Most e-Subscriptions have
topics to choose from.
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Linkedin Can Connect You With Other Experts To Share
Ideas And Deliver Better Care

14. Networks Designed To Enhance Collaboration Between
Health Professionals
• Sermo: A community for physicians only that allows
them to explore job opportunities, share clinical
information and case studies, and earn honoraria
while having their voices heard.
• Allnurses.com: A community for nurses that
includes news, discussions, articles, newsletters and
links to other social networks.
• HealthSprocket: A community of health care
professionals who publish lists on a variety of topics
others can read, rate and comment on.
• Medscape: Medscape from WebMD offers
specialists, primary care physicians, and other
health professionals robust and integrated medical
information and educational tools.
• Medxcentral: A community designed to connect
others in the medical field through groups and
communities. Works in conjunction with other
social networks.
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Source: http://healthcareers.about.com/od/advanceyourcareer/tp/MedicalSocialNetworkingCommunitiesOnline.htm

15. Systems Thinking To Solve Wicked Problems
“a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for
seeing patterns of change rather than static snapshots.” ~Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
http://www.anser.org/docs/systems_thinking_applied.pdf

16. Glitches vs. Path: Healthcare to HEALTH
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/Best-Care-at-Lower-Cost-The-Path-to-Continuously-Learning-Health-Care-in-America/Report-Brief.aspx
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17. Think About the Possibilities and Sustainable
Solutions Beyond the Glitches
“almost 75,000 needless deaths could have been averted in 2005 if every state had delivered care on par
with the best performing state. Current waste diverts resources; the committee estimates $750 billion in
unnecessary health spending in 2009 alone. ~ IOM Report, Best Care At Lowest Costs 2012

18. Are You Leading By Example?

19. Questions?

20. Handouts