One of the key challenges I have faced since joining The CAPTURE Project less than a year ago, other than learning to embrace risk, is figuring out how to tell our story. Over the past year our description for The CAPTURE Project has evolved. Our initial documents and presentations spoke of the project as aiming … Read the full post »
As some of you know, the CAPTURE platform will provide data collection tools for many common outcomes in health promotion programming. I am pleased to let you know that we have started working on developing data collection tools for capturing process and outcome data in four areas: partnering; stakeholder engagement; knowledge transfer and exchange; and … Read the full post »
In my last blog, I waxed on about the virtues of partnership as a strategy for building a technological solution like The CAPTURE Project. The focus of my last blog was about the efficiencies one can gain by using other people’s “stuff” but this time around I would like to talk about quality and coherence… … Read the full post »
I have been thinking a lot lately about what we mean by the use of the term “real-world evidence” in the CAPTURE acronym. Is this about the collection of evidence from the “messy” real-world or the use of evidence in the “messy” real world? In the beginning, when the acronym was being developed and our … Read the full post »
I have never thought of myself as a risk taker. I am most comfortable with a clear routine, a sense of control and I like to organize most everything from my household to my work plan. I have worked with both Diane and David before and although I do not consider myself to be a … Read the full post »
When Diane and I dreamed up The CAPTURE Project in the fall of 2008, we very specifically stated that we would do everything in our power to take advantage of the existing resources in Canada and “not reinvent the wheel”. Of course, everybody who starts a new project says that – who would want to … Read the full post »
Can we build a web-platform to support the evaluation of chronic disease prevention programming? Will anyone want to use it or fund it? These were the questions I was thinking about as I was considering taking a job with The CAPTURE Project. But both David and Diane’s conviction that it can be done and that … Read the full post »
A few months ago, as we were going over the concept map clusters, I was introduced to a management model called “servant leadership”. The concept kept creeping up in team meetings and conversations. So before our fall consultative workshop, I did some quick online research to better understand its origins and how it has evolved … Read the full post »
Several stakeholders from the chronic disease prevention community who attended a consultation workshop this past October in Vancouver, British Columbia, share their thoughts on what makes The CAPTURE Project so compelling. Tell us what you think is compelling about this project. video attachment:
I’m just back from too much travel and trying to clear up the email back-log. Seems a common theme among many of my colleagues these days……but I just watched the latest CAPTURE video and I’m all excited again about this challenge we have taken on, trying to build a system which will help us understand … Read the full post »
