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Diffusion of Innovation ;
The broad dissemination of new ideas, procedures, techniques, materials, and devices and the degree to which these are accepted and used. Year introduced: 1991(1980) (MeSH)
Health Communication ;
The transfer of information from experts in the medical and public health fields to patients and the public. The study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health.(MeSH)
Information Management ; A method used to organize information to avoid information overload and to keep information in a format that is efficient to retrieve whenever needed. Filing systems, cognitive maps, manuals, and electronic databases are examples of devices that can prove useful in information management. A network of consultants is an additional way to ensure that necessary information will be readily available.(IIME)
Information Science ; The field of knowledge, theory, and technology dealing with the collection of facts and figures, and the processes and methods involved in their manipulation, storage, dissemination, publication, and retrieval. It includes the fields of COMMUNICATION; PUBLISHING; LIBRARY SCIENCE; and informatics.(MeSH)
Knowledge exchange ; collaborative problem-solving between researchers and decision-makers that happens through linkage and exchange (CHFI 2016)
Semantic Web ; A framework for development and promotion of common data formats and exchange protocols linked in a way that can be read directly by computers. Semantic Web is a platform for sharing and reusing data across application, enterprise, and community boundaries, by linking concepts rather than just documents. (MeSH 2018)
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Audet AM, Squires D, Doty MM. Where are we on the diffusion curve? Trends and drivers of primary care physicians' use of health information technology. Health services research. 2014; 49(1 Pt 2): 347-60. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24358958
McMullen H, Griffiths C, Leber W, Greenhalgh T. Explaining high and low performers in complex intervention trials: a new model based on diffusion of innovations theory. Trials. 2015; 16: 242. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26026849
Pluye P, Grad RM, Johnson-Lafleur J, Granikov V, Shulha M, Marlow B, Ricarte IL. Number needed to benefit from information (NNBI): proposal from a mixed methods research study with practicing family physicians. Annals of family medicine. 2013; 11(6): 559-67. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24218380
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