Pulse+IT Weekly – Why Now and What is Planned?

This short article is to introduce the new Pulse+IT Weekly.

In answer to the question “why now?” it seemed to Simon and myself that there is so much going on in e-Health, both nationally and internationally, that there was a need to a short weekly news briefing on Health IT that would supplement both the printed magazine (Pulse+IT) as well as provide an outlet for some important brief material which does not make it to the blog (www.aushealthit.blogspot.com).

The need has become increasingly obvious to me over the last few months as I have found myself having to ignore or only comment briefly on events and issues that really needed some more exploration.

Over time we plan to encourage interaction and comment to ensure both relevance and reliability in what is produced and circulated.

The way we plan to have it work is that interested individuals will be able to go to a section of the magazine web site (http://www.pulsemagazine.com.au/) and subscribe to a weekly e-mail. This e-mail will provide a link to the current issue which will be downloadable as a web aware .pdf file which will enable comment and responses.

Prospective readers should click on the ‘eNews’ tab from the home page to sign up for the weekly e-mail which is planned to come out on Thursday mornings.

Here are some direct links:

The URL for people who want to sign up is:

http://tinyurl.com/4vmtl9

The URL for the actual PDF will be (when available):

http://www.pulsemagazine.com.au/enews/2008/june/PulseIT_12-06-2008.pdf

Or

http://tinyurl.com/489jdv

The first issue will be available after 11.00am on Thursday 12/06/2008 (or maybe a bit later ).

The service will be free to subscribers and strict non-disclosure of e-mail addresses will be enforced. The service will be totally opt-in and I will publish links for an initial period to allow people to try before they buy (if you can buy something that is free ).

We would also see the weekly supporting the activities of all those involved in the e-Health sector through the provision of announcements from HISA and ACHI, advertising of appropriate meetings and conferences as well as some limited relevant commercial advertising to help defray expenses.

I hope people will give it a try as another way to foster interest and support the e-Health in Australia.

Enjoy!

David.