Posted by Sally on December 29, 2008 under Blog | 
For just over a year I've been working on building a
social networking site that I had hoped would be used by the Health Department in an effort to improve communication between our nursing staff and their clients.
Perhaps I had a feeling of things to come after posting recently about an article dealing with
the lack of innovation within Government Departments.
I was informed on the 24th of December that my site has not been supported by the Executive which effectively means it will not be launched for our community groups in 2009 as I had hoped.
Obviously, I am very disappointed in this decision as I firmly believe health 2.0 has a place in Australian Health. I have not been given a full explanation regarding this decision so cannot really blog about it in detail at this stage.
Hopefully in the new year I will be given some details and will be happy to share my thoughts and opinions.
Although I am terribly disappointed that my site,
CommunityConnect was not launched, I have learnt an incredible amount and have become quite a huge fan of Drupal, the platform used to build the site.
Posted by Sally on December 15, 2008 under Blog |
I love finding resources online and it's even better when you find posts that list them for you!
Check out the
100 Global Health Blogs That Will Open Your Eyes. I'm pleased to say that Tech'n'Health made the cut :)
Posted by Sally on December 1, 2008 under Blog |
Another interesting article from
watoday.com.au discussing the need to accommodate changing trends by developing integrated health treatments which include the referral of patients to alternate or complimentary therapy.
Professor Kerryn Phelps said patients today wanted more health information resources and were increasing their use of complimentary medicines furthering the need for an integrated health system.
Speaking at the Vario Health Institute conference at Edith Cowan University this morning, she said Australia needed to continue to develop an integrated system which made room for alternative treatments.
"It's time we did something of a reality check, our health care system is reforming itself with or without government reform," she said."
She said Generation Y would benefit from credible health information online, in chat rooms and on reputable websites.
"This new generation demand high-quality information to guide their own self medication... patients of the information age have a growing amount of information available to them - but also a lot of misinformation," she said.
I can see this will be quite a long journey especially trying to change the attitudes of some GP's towards alternative therapies.
Ultimately, the client will help force change. It may take longer than many of us desire but eventually it will happen.
