The document discusses several topics related to documentation, health, and memory:
1) It instructs students to document 2-3 memories per day in Evernote and tag them with themes as part of a class project on memory.
2) It considers issues around access to medical records and the potential benefits of digital medical records.
3) It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of paper versus digital medical record keeping systems.
4) It examines memory loss from normal aging as well as severe cases like Alzheimer's disease and how a "total recall" process may help those suffering from memory loss.
2. Documentation Make sure to do the following for your project! Week 2 for collecting 2-3 ememories a day, upload to EverNote, and tag memories with appropriate themes. Under Unit 4, fill out the Ememory collection touchstone declaring your progress. Try to enjoy the project!
3. Medical We will consider the following this week: Who has access to your medical records ... do you have easy access to them? Why or why not? Will digital medical records help the process of providing healthcare? What benefits would you get by having a copy of your own medical records?
4. Old Record Keeping Consider the advantages and disadvantages of paper record keeping. Sharing of records. Quick location of history.
5. Digital Medical Records Consider advantages and disadvantages: The ease of maintaining and updating records. Sharing of information between medical companies. Global access to information. Personal access to information.
6. Memory Loss Consider memory loss and Total Recall potential. Alzheimer's Disease Dementia Normal aging process and memory loss
7. Alzheimer Can a Total Recall Process help the Alzheimer sufferer?
10. Clive Wearing Born in 1938. British Musicologist. Suffers from severe amnesia (he cannot contain new memories) - the Memento Syndrome - Retrograde and anterograde amnesia. His Hippocampus was damaged - this is where your short term memories are transferred to long term memories. He is only able to remember 7-30 seconds at a time.
11. Total Recall and Memory To what extent can a Total Recall project help us remember things? Consider all cases of memory loss from slight to drastic, such as Mr. Wearing’s case. The potential of the Sensecam?