Ganesha: Hindu deity, half elephant, often depicted riding a mouse, Mushika. Represents knowledge and education, and by extension, science. Also destroyer of obstacles.
Bringing biomedical information to life...
Overview
Modern medicine is an information science of prodigous size and complexity. Scientists spend large amounts of their time (and tax-payers money) searching for and reading information from a huge variety of sources. Often they have received little training in how to use the growing number of information resources available to them. Furthermore, access, integration and useability are often not at the top of the list of user requirements in the minds of developers such as commercial publishers or informatics labs.
Ganesha Associates supports biomedical innovation by helping publishers, educators, governments, and research organizations understand how information and technology can be used together more effectively to drive efficiency and creativity throughout the biomedical and healthcare workflows - from the virtual library, to the bench, and so to the bedside.
Research & Analysis
Our most recent projects have involved clinical decision support technology assessment for customers in the UK and US , assessing usability of databases and informatics tools developed by NCBI at NIH, and identifying strategies to improve the success rates of postgraduate research in universities and hospitals in Brasil
Training
We also run courses designed to teach students and researchers how to perform more effective research and to improve the quality of their publication output. Currently our focus is on the development of courses which are fully Web-based, taking advantage of open software such as Udutu and Moodle as well as social media such as Facebook and media hosts such as YouTube and Flickr. The Moodle site has just been created by our colleagues at Mushika eLearning Resources. Take a peak...