K.C. Bolton:
New Coalitions of the Willing
Been a very busy and rewarding month. The posting of a Groove space invite to the Virtual Projects website (Thanks again Rainer!) brought us a new member to the Virtual Shared Care Team space. I won't 'out' him by mentioning his name, but he is already pumping up my creative juices. It just goes to show you that too many cooks do NOT spoil the broth if you are heading off into undiscovered territory.
My telemedicine project nears the line of no return. We are close to launching the requests for bids to put in connectivity, send clinicians to training, and start nose-to-the-grindstone working group outings. Its a good/bad thing. At a certain point one must produce on all the grandiose concepts and make it work. The closer we get to that point, the greater the need I feel that Groove can help us pull off magic...much of the critical players are separated by great distances. I grow weary of 'email ping-pong' and missed calls, but its a fact for the immediate future.
What is so invigorating about our particular telemedicine project is that we have a chance to right wrongs of others in the past. When the potential rewards are great, there is an equal and opposite chance of tremendous failure. One thing is for sure, I will resist deploying any technology that is not useful to the end user. But without end-user empowerment, telemedicine is a neat toy, and not an enabler like it should be.
7:26:01 PM 
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