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WordPress: Notice: has_cap was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.0!

I’ve been experimenting with LDAP and Cosign login plugins for WordPress. Most of them are out of date and are more or less incompatible with WordPress v.3.5. Usually the first error that comes up is

Notice: has_cap was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.0!

All this means is that instead of using the numerical role identifier argument in a function that adds a menu or submenu, the required capability should be used instead.

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My favorite apps for taking notes and sense-making from PDF and Kindle

Most of what I read for work these days is in PDF or Kindle format, and there’s an awful lot of it. Trying to make sense out of the ever-faster firehose of information, most of it on subjects that are new to me, has forced me to rethink my research methods, or lack of them. I’ve never been able to take great notes by hand – I’m a much faster typist than hand-writer, and depend on being able to search within my notes, so I’ve mainly concentrated on electronic workflows. 

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Video ethnography for quality improvement

Watching patient/provider interactions in realtime can make it easier to see the process from the patient perspective and spot opportunities for improvement. In healthcare interactions, as in just about any people-oriented service, issues that are obvious when seen in context can get lost when an interaction is described by bare data. In an era where structured data is so important, it can be very useful to step back and look for a richer picture of the service you are providing, without a preconception of what is going to be significant.

I was interested to read about Kaiser Permanente’s use of video ethnography to observe patients as they receive care in order to gain insight into unmet patient needs and overlooked issues. From an article on collaborations between insurers and providers to use data owned by the insurer to improve population health:

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The future Healthcare Learning Landscape – a 10,000 foot view

The field of Healthcare today is filled with opportunities for improvement. Inconsistent treatment, preventable illness, and medical errors that result in injury are all too common, along with enormous inefficiency and waste.

The Institute of Medicine, the medical arm of the National Academy of Sciences, is leading an initiative that descibes a better organizing principle for healthcare – a “Learning Healthcare System.” A learning healthcare system is simply one that continuously “Learns,” meaning that healthcare data from many sources, including electronic medical records is turned into guidelines and knowledge and that knowledge is swiftly translated into practice so that all clinical decisions and processes are based on the best available and most current evidence. New knowledge is in turn generated in the course of practice, and the cycle continues, fostering continuous improvement at all levels: national, organizational, unit, team and individual.

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