A (maverick) IT manager once said to me - "if you can trust doctors and nurses with patients, dangerous drugs, patient records you can trust them with the internet"
Regards
Rod
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From: Evidence based health (EBH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ami Banerjee
Sent: 30 July 2009 10:36
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: tweeting
Hi All
I found some interesting references to this issue raised by Andy. The issue of restricting access to the internet has been a problem since its inception and its seems that the corporate world noticed that in the digital age, restricting internet access will lead to staff frustration rather than increased productivity.
http://kn.theiet.org/magazine/issues/0910/social-networking-0910.cfm
http://www.mycustomer.com/item/134363
http://www.tut.fi/units/tuta/teta/mittaritiimi/julkaisut/internet.pdf
My favourite quote is: "Bill Gates said years ago that if you worry about internet productivity, you're worrying about people stealing pens from your stationery cupboard... there are bigger things to worry about."
http://apcmag.com/unlock_work_internet_or_risk_losing_staff_microsoft.htm
All of the above arguments are as relevant to the NHS setting as the corporate world, particularly for health professionals wanting to stay up-to-date with evidence or wanting to get involved in research.
Best wishes
Ami Banerjee
2009/7/30 Prue, Andy <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi Utkarsh
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> 'every senior manager I've spoken to seems to be under the perception
> that staff would be permanently goofing off if access was allowed.'
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> I've heard that one too, but again don't buy into it. We already have
> Web 1.0 (or 0.5 in some cases!!) which has more than enough capacity
> to enable 'goofing off', but does current evidence support this behaviour?
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>
> Secondly, it seems a tad offensive to apply such a broad brush to the
> 'anticipated' behaviour of NHS staff. Yes, there will always be the
> odd one or two, but surely this could be managed through current systems.
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> I think there is a bottom-up 'change management' issue here. Users are
> demanding access to this technology, if its not taken seriously will
> they not go elsewhere?!!!
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>
> Cheers
>
> Andy ;-)
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> Andy Prue
> Web Development Librarian
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> From: Evidence based health (EBH)
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kulkarni
> Utkarsh (NHS Grampian)
> Sent: 30 July 2009 09:42
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> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: tweeting
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> Karen,
>
> The NHS IT restrictions are a problem that probably won't go away -
> every senior manager I've spoken to seems to be under the perception
> that staff would be permanently goofing off if access was allowed. And
> as you say, IT folk get spooked by the security/virus/worm implications.
>
> To follow a specific topic, the twitter RSS feed may be useful - for
> example, we've set up an RSS reader on our obesity portal
> (www.obesityportal.org, still in development) which picks up the RSS
> feed that Twitter allows you to define on your profile. A specific
> topic could also be defined for a search RSS. As long as the feed
> reader is within an "allowed site", you can at least see what's being
> tweeted. It's very limitied and far from perfect even in that limited
> functionality: you can't tweet out, only receive, and half a
> conversation I suppose is no conversation at all.
>
> I wonder if anyone has experience with a Twitter client in the NHS system?
> Some NHS IT areas prevent new software installs too!
>
> Utkarsh.
>
>
>
> Dr Utkarsh Kulkarni
>
> Centre for Obesity Research & Epidemiology
>
> Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
>
> &
>
> NHS Grampian
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> From: Evidence based health (EBH)
> [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ritchie Karen (NHS
> Quality Improvement Scotland) [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 30 July 2009 08:30
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: tweeting
>
> Some of us are having problems accessing new communication tools such
> as Twitter, Facebook etc because of restrictive IT policies in the workplace.
> Have others experienced this or found arguments or ways to overcome
> perceived security concerns?
>
>
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> Dr Karen Ritchie
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> NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
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> www.nhshealthquality.org
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