Raising many flags about patient data security and GDPR in Hospital IT departments everywhere. Nexxis Live and other innovative remote healthcare platformsĭata relayed through servers of big corporations are randomly recorded or stored for application improvement or connections are not secured properly and can be hacked. A whole host of security concerns when used in a clinical environment has recently come to the fore. The sheer volume of users is causing issues surrounding bandwidth, latency, and delays, affecting image and audio quality. Though these applications are not without their drawbacks, remote healthcare collaboration is much-needed in support for businesses and industries. However, applications like MS Teams© and Zoom© fulfilled a purpose throughout the pandemic and demonstrated great uptake in areas such as remote radiology assessments, multidisciplinary team meetings, remote specialist second opinion, online training, and live specialist conferences. Read more.Remote healthcare communication tools can be highly effective and useful for collaboration, clinical assessments, and surgical training, finds Ingo Aicher, Managing Director at Jones AV Limitedĭue to the pandemic’s rapid onset, hospital IT departments were ill-prepared, and solutions were deployed ad hoc, previously unthinkable in an IT environment dominated by security concerns. In the UK, the trade unions shaped the direction of the Labour Party in the 1930s and 40s which ultimately led to the social democratic reforms between 1945-51: the NHS, nationalisations and the welfare state. History is replete with examples of where organised labour, in different forms, has been at the forefront of political-social change: be it the strikes of 1917 in St Petersburg which precipitated the Russian Revolution or the worker control enacted in Catalonia by the CNT union during the Spanish Civil War. The power and potential of trade unions during a cost of living crisis (Ben Manovitch / Now Then magazine) That the ancestor in question lived hundreds of years ago hardly matters what matters to them is that, like Grey Owl, they feel themselves to be authentically Indigenous. They haunt genealogy forums, looking for Indigenous ancestors, and sometimes they even find one. These Pretendians, as they’re now known, speculate about their “Indian blood” or pass down family stories about a distant Lakota ancestor. Some might yearn for sympathy and attention-what Atlantic writer Helen Lewis called “social Munchausen syndrome”-while others are just looking for an interesting detail to ornament their mundane biographies.
Since then, countless people have made similar transformations. In the early 20th century, a binge-drinking British man named Archibald Belaney began calling himself Grey Owl, dying his hair black and going around in moccasins. Here are this week’s recommendations: The Curious Case of Gina Adams: A “Pretendian” investigation (Michelle Cyca / Maclean’s) No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see. Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world.