Thanks again to Dr William Brody

Thanks to the President of John Hopkins University in the US, Dr William Brody, I’ve updated my ideas on shift handover systems using wikis with an Medicexchange article based on his ECR presentation calling for a revolution in patient care for radiology. Looking for a possible pic I came across his 2005 RSNA lecture, with the choice phrase “People love innovation, but they dislike change.” I thought that made a lot of sense.

What a difference

02 March 2006: “The final comments were about mecahnisms for involving nurses from a variety of backgrounds in C4H projects were discussed including a suggestion from Stuart Glendinning Hall of running a blog – but it was suggested many nurses would not be able to access this.”

20 March 2007: “The first speaker was Janette Bennett, Senior Clinical Advisor with the BT Health Executive;…There need to be radical changes to the ways of working (eg virtual support services), and these have radical implications for the nature of education needs. She sees possibilities for new online environments, such as MySpace, for modelling new ways of working, learning and thinking. Underlying infrastructures, rather than technologies, she suggests, are what provide the real boundaries to be addressed.”