I know the current fashion is to laud social networking/wisdom of the crowds, but isn’t there an element of nerdy-ness rather than creativeness occassionally? By chance I stumbled across this Wikipedia page on music setlists which suggests some ‘fans’ are kinda missing the point: Web sites exist to track and report statistics on the played [...]
Sunday included:
1. Watching the film ‘West Beyruth‘ whilst ironing. I finished the ironing, but not the film. 2. Bought the book ‘Stuart - A life lived backwards’ for my uncle, who was once miltary attache in Damascus. 3. Cycled out to the local golf driving range with Shirley and hit a few balls. 4. [...]
It occured to me today that of all the places I have worked that one of the most unusual was the PLAB test set up at the General Medical Council. For those who don’t know PLAB is “the main route by which International Medical Graduates (IMGs) demonstrate that they have the necessary skills and knowledge [...]
Well just as I’m busy working on a brief for my cousin James on the shift handover idea I see at the other end of the innovation specturm Microsoft has recently acquired Azyxxi. And as Bill Crounse, Healthcare Industry Director at MS posts in his ’Health blog on 10′ on 26 July: “The Azyxxi solution came about, as most good [...]
Last weekend I was rummaging through some old photographs and came across the wedding pics from Oswin Baker (son of former Conservative education minister). Then just today I happened to call Ipsos-MORI to check navigational structure with their e-government section, and found myself talking to Oswin. As he pointed out, there’s been a lot of ‘water [...]
What’s the funniest thing that ever happened to me? This is hard as I have a dry sense of humour. Usually it’s things people tell you. Like when my mother said I hadn’t accomplished anything since I left Cambridge University in 1987. Which is pretty funny considering that she is dead right!
Congratulations on Patient Opinion gaining a highly commended award at last night’s New Statesman New Media Awards. Sadly as I am no longer in Headshift’s employ I was unable to drink wine, and make song, but instead had a run round Regent’s Park. Nice to see that the award also resulted in coverage in the [...]
Web editors of the world unite! Insert some cheeky words into a page that is only seen when you go to ‘Page Source’! Kinda low tech version of chip designers leaving little arty designs in their chips. If I’ve had this thought, then it must already be happening..
Here’s a free tip for spammers to get folk to open their emails. Simply put in the subject line ‘loved your blog’. OK, I’m starting the clock today, to see if/when this goes viral.
Just spotted this Reuters story on AuntMinnie from earlier this month on the problems of patients safety incidents, and the gross under-reporting; plus failings to learn from these errors. Well, again, I ask where’s the work being done on shift handover systems and technology as one key piece of the solutions jigsaw? Not by the [...]