Envisioning information from Alan Ruttenberg on 2007-11-20 (public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org from November 2007)

From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:00:49 -0500
To: Vipul Kashyap <VKASHYAP1@PARTNERS.ORG>
Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org, public-hcls-dse@w3.org
Message-Id: <4C0C1F02-4D52-4009-87C7-7732B7906798@gmail.com>

Vipul and I were discussing patient records and I remembered a nice  
layout of a portion from a medical record that Edward Tufte  
visualized in his book Envisioning Information. It is on page 56 to  
57. Unfortunately I don't know of an online way to view the book, but  
if you have access to a copy this, and any ofTufte's other books,  
they are well worth a look. The visualization places a terse report  
of the treatment of a patient in her last days, from a medical bill,  
annotated on the sides, in a sort of talmudic style, with the story  
of what was happening at the time.

Regards,
Alan

http://www.amazon.com/Envisioning-Information-Edward-R-Tufte/dp/ 
0961392118

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