Scouting

Scouting Activities

Environmental scanning for relevant topics, themes and trends is essential to the Center, not only for future pilot development but also to inform existing projects and refine activities underway. In the last year, some examples include the following: 

• Avatars and virtual worlds
• Data “mashups”
• Distributed democracies and trust networks
• e-Healthcare
• Ethnography
• Metacognition
• Natural language processing
• Physician information management skills
• Physician rating systems
• Physician workforce
• Portfolio assessment and data transparency
• Positive deviance
• Semiotics
• Simulation
• Social networking
• Virtual patients
• Work-based assessment