Health Manager Article - FROM PASSIVE READING TO ACTIVE COMMUNICATION

Kevin Peyton wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
I recently had a short article published in Health Manager (July 2007 Issue), the quarterly publication from the Health Managment Institute of Ireland - a professional body for those involved in Health Care Management in the Republic of Ireland.
In the end, I may have veered from the intended brief which was to picture what technology could do for managers over say the next 10 years; wittingly or unwittingly, I actually moved the timeline back - and considered the changes that have occurred over the last 10 years.
The article text follows:
Online tools make it easier to communicate and share information, says Kevin Peyton
If you were to ask any healthcare manager what has brought the biggest change to communication in the workplace over the last 10 years - undoubtedly the top three would be the mobile phone, email and the Internet.
It’s difficult to remember at this point how you explained yourself on arriving to a meeting late – now we just ring ahead and say we have been delayed; What about those struggles with a fax machine? – Now we just attach and press send; And when was the last time that you actually visited a travel agent to book an airline ticket?
Just as a level of comfort was descending on how we use email and the web as an integral part of our daily working lives, along come the geeks again with clever ideas, seeming limitless quantities of caffeine based drinks, and a tireless pursuit of the next big Internet thing […]

Read the rest of this great post here

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