“I’ve been reflecting on how communications has transformed our lives, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed our ability to interact with others.”
“Before NLM’s physical workspace shifted to maximum telework, I was walking to work when I passed a strange sight — the last vestiges of pay phones on the National Institutes of Health campus! Those decommissioned pay phones got me thinking about how technology changes over time, how essential communication technology has become, and how NLM’s approach to providing trustworthy biomedical data and health information must evolve as methods of delivery change. As technology advances, we have more choices and greater sophistication in the methods we use to meet our responsibility to deliver biomedical data and health information, as well as in the tools we use to interrogate that information.”
“The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC), now more than 50 years old, provides a case study of how NLM’s efforts to communicate information have been transformed…” Read the full article here.
Source: A New Era of Health Communications – By Patti Brennan, July 14, 2020. National Library of Medicine.
