Health and Web 2.0 Update

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.