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January 24, 2008

IRB Expedition

We found out today that our IRB proposal was approved for expedited review. If all goes according to plan we should get final approval in a week and be able to start our semi-structured interviews and send out our survey instrument.

While we've been waiting to hear back from the IRB, our group has been busy doing a competitive analysis on other case study and eHealth sites. The competitive analysis will help us prioritize what features we will focus on in our prototype. The team has also been doing preliminary interviews with UM physicians to get more information about how our case study repository might fit into their practice.

Rupa and I attended a fascinating lecture by Thomas Vander Wal who coined the term "folksonomy." His insights were valuable as we are investigating using both a formal taxonomy and a user-generated folksonomy in our tool.

We bought the name "casepedia.net." Come back soon for a link to the site and more musings on our progress plus a sneak peek at our fabulous logo.

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