But John Coakley, the hospital's medical director, sounds a sceptical note: "Most of the performance indicators are quite sensible but there are just too many of them: it takes a huge amount of time to report the information, diverting clinicians away from more pressing clinical tasks".Homerton has to report information, at least monthly and often weekly, on around 100 performance indicators.
Ironically, galaxies of information divert us from hewing to a core, ancient tenet of survival.
When this much of cable news information has diverted from hard facts, it is bound it have an effect on viewers.
Some Democrats have accused the Bush administration of putting out the information to divert attention from the Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry.
Will Skidelsky puts it thus: "A history of Britain's culinary development as told through its cookbooks, this scholarly volume offers a feast of diverting information".
Several government figures were arrested and accused of exploiting a loophole in the government's payment system – known as the integrated financial managing information System – to divert millions into their own pockets.
The permanent exhibition, "All About Shoes," is full of diverting information (why we measure things by feet, the status implications of high heels) and examples of arcane and/or exquisite footwear.
Companies do not care for whistle-blowing programs because they divert information from their internal compliance systems and instead give it directly to the government, meaning it is not filtered first by outside counsel.
Sir Harold Evans, former editor of The Sunday Times of London and the former publisher of Random House, said the White House's efforts to block the flow of information to the press had diverted it to books.
These outcomes are also in line with recent social neurocognitive evidence (Kessels, Ruiter, & Jansma, 2010) and eye-tracking evidence (Nielsen & Shapiro, 2009) that shows that attention is automatically diverted from threatening information in a high-risk population.
