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For over two decades as a healthcare provider I have wrestled with the onerous but unavoidable task of keeping healthcare records. I have pondered often and long, usually in abstract terms, the nature of healthcare information and its pivotal role in healthcare relationships and activities. This Web site represents my best effort to elucidate these heretofore mostly private reflections.
Words — "Healthcare: What's in a
word?"
A project to investigate the etymology, semantics and
grammar of the words that define healthcare. The premise
underlying this study is that as a repository of human
experience, language itself affords important insights
into the essential nature of human relationships and
activities. The picture of healthcare that emerges is one
in which the human dimension undergirds the more abstract
notion of information and its uses.
Letters — "Text and
Markup Languages"
A future project to explore the nature of written
language and, more especially, the use of computer
systems in handling written language.
Cells —
"Life is
Object-Oriented Matter"
A future project to demonstrate that living structures
(especially living cells) are the ultimate in
"object-oriented" systems, exhibiting encapsulation,
inheritance, and polymorphism, among other key
object-oriented principles.
Objects
— "An
Experimental API"
An ongoing project to build a class library of healthcare
related conceptual objects.
About this Site
A set of pages providing more information about this
Website. These include the guidelines for publication,
the OpenContent license, news and project status, a site
map, links to external resources, an Internet search page
and information about the author.
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