I mean it takes seconds for new stories to break on Twitter. CNN takes hours!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5614541/Twitter-vs-CNN-Blood-on-the-streets.html

I am also quite interested in how social media, such as Twitter…and others…could help out during a healthcare emergency.

I think that this “Remote access to UHN’s electronic health record” isn’t just important to UHN, but to anybody that holds these kinds of records.

And I totally agree with “telephone-based communication proved to be a resource-intensive solution that may not be sustainable in the event of a more widespread epidemic or external disaster.”

Telephone is one of the worse ways to communicate in a disaster or epidemic nowadays. It is prone to fail under heavy loads, and it requires one on one interactions. IN a disaster you need to be able to quickly disseminate information to as many people as possible in whichever methods are available.

I have a webpage on “Pandemics” with info for schools and educators …. feel free to link from your SL display if suitable. http://tr.im/kbi6