Comments on: This gets my attention http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/06/26/this-gets-my-attention/ never knowingly under opinionated Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:14:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Phil Baumannhttp://www.accmanpro.com/2008/06/26/this-gets-my-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-195526 Phil Baumann Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:32:42 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=3115#comment-195526 @AmandaI get your frustration with hyperbole. Hype is everywhere about what blogs or Web 2.0 can do. I get it. It numbs my mind too!Not all hospitals *need* a blog per se. But there are side effects to the practice, especially since there is a gap (from my perspective) between the healthcare industry and the technologies they could use. A blog sparks interest in what's going on in the world. It can be valuable if done right and with care.Hospitals operate 24/7, which makes it easy for (some) key administrators from keeping up-to-date with our changing world. My hope in sparking interest in blogging (which was just one example) is that my industry gets better and exploits the chance to interact with the greater community.If I made the project sound SUPERCALIFRAGALISTICALLY VALUABLE, well then that's my fault as messenger and novel blogger, not the concept I'm hoping to convey.Namaste! @Amanda

I get your frustration with hyperbole. Hype is everywhere about what blogs or Web 2.0 can do. I get it. It numbs my mind too!

Not all hospitals *need* a blog per se. But there are side effects to the practice, especially since there is a gap (from my perspective) between the healthcare industry and the technologies they could use. A blog sparks interest in what’s going on in the world. It can be valuable if done right and with care.

Hospitals operate 24/7, which makes it easy for (some) key administrators from keeping up-to-date with our changing world. My hope in sparking interest in blogging (which was just one example) is that my industry gets better and exploits the chance to interact with the greater community.

If I made the project sound SUPERCALIFRAGALISTICALLY VALUABLE, well then that’s my fault as messenger and novel blogger, not the concept I’m hoping to convey.

Namaste!

]]> By: Richard Younghttp://www.accmanpro.com/2008/06/26/this-gets-my-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-195474 Richard Young Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:19:24 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=3115#comment-195474 @Dennis: at the risk of getting you started on it, "$xxx million"? Change the $ to a £ and add an "x". Stupidly expensive - and *for nothing that will change the health service experience for 95% of people*! Gah! Next up: national ID database. £20bn to make sure they know who all the law-abiding subjects are! Way to ossify the underclass and ensure only the *really smart* terrorists can operate! @Dennis: at the risk of getting you started on it, “$xxx million”? Change the $ to a £ and add an “x”. Stupidly expensive – and *for nothing that will change the health service experience for 95% of people*! Gah! Next up: national ID database. £20bn to make sure they know who all the law-abiding subjects are! Way to ossify the underclass and ensure only the *really smart* terrorists can operate!

]]> By: Dennis Howletthttp://www.accmanpro.com/2008/06/26/this-gets-my-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-195473 Dennis Howlett Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:13:02 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=3115#comment-195473 Central NHS database? That $xxx million project by our friends at Oracle? Don't get me off on that one. Central NHS database? That $xxx million project by our friends at Oracle? Don’t get me off on that one.

]]> By: Richard Younghttp://www.accmanpro.com/2008/06/26/this-gets-my-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-195470 Richard Young Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:02:28 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=3115#comment-195470 @Dennis - agreed: it's easy to get bogged down in the terminology, and a word like "blog" is far too ambiguous to be useful. What it means to you is radically different from what it might mean to an MP, and I can imagine the scene at a departmental meeting in a hospital when it's announced they're rolling out "a blog" for wards. My father-in-law has just come out of hospital (nothing serious, happily) and I found the poor use of systems and the sheer inefficiency stunning. (And many of the same problems were evident when my wife went private, so it's not unique to the state sector.) An localised "internet of devices" for individual hospitals seems like a much better investment at this point than a central NHS database, at any rate... @Dennis – agreed: it’s easy to get bogged down in the terminology, and a word like “blog” is far too ambiguous to be useful. What it means to you is radically different from what it might mean to an MP, and I can imagine the scene at a departmental meeting in a hospital when it’s announced they’re rolling out “a blog” for wards. My father-in-law has just come out of hospital (nothing serious, happily) and I found the poor use of systems and the sheer inefficiency stunning. (And many of the same problems were evident when my wife went private, so it’s not unique to the state sector.) An localised “internet of devices” for individual hospitals seems like a much better investment at this point than a central NHS database, at any rate…

]]> By: Dennis Howletthttp://www.accmanpro.com/2008/06/26/this-gets-my-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-195463 Dennis Howlett Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:38:13 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=3115#comment-195463 @Richard: It would be way narrow to restrict thinking to 'blog' because we're now seeing the technology being subsumed into all sorts of portal style apps etc. but you're on the right track. Internally, they could serve as very useful devices for cutting through the amount of bureaucracy that goes with hospital admin etc. This is something I know about as I served as CFO for a healthcare group back in the day and from what I've seen, things have got worse, as confirmed by my healthcare trust procurement officer son-in-law. From what I know about the US, it's worse still. @Richard: It would be way narrow to restrict thinking to ‘blog’ because we’re now seeing the technology being subsumed into all sorts of portal style apps etc. but you’re on the right track. Internally, they could serve as very useful devices for cutting through the amount of bureaucracy that goes with hospital admin etc. This is something I know about as I served as CFO for a healthcare group back in the day and from what I’ve seen, things have got worse, as confirmed by my healthcare trust procurement officer son-in-law. From what I know about the US, it’s worse still.

]]> By: Richard Younghttp://www.accmanpro.com/2008/06/26/this-gets-my-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-195462 Richard Young Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:25:41 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=3115#comment-195462 Tending to agree with Vinnie on this one. I've only spent five minutes thinking about it, but I just can't see what value a blog adds for a hospital - over, say, an electronic board for each bed that holds data on things like how often it's been changed, what the patient needs to eat and when, their drug protocols, maybe even when they've been visited – or a facility for them to document their own symptoms or questions for medical staff. (OK, you might call that last feature a "blog". But really. No.) Tending to agree with Vinnie on this one. I’ve only spent five minutes thinking about it, but I just can’t see what value a blog adds for a hospital – over, say, an electronic board for each bed that holds data on things like how often it’s been changed, what the patient needs to eat and when, their drug protocols, maybe even when they’ve been visited – or a facility for them to document their own symptoms or questions for medical staff. (OK, you might call that last feature a “blog”. But really. No.)

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