Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist"

Somehow YOU are going to have to convince  the head of your hospital stroke department that they need to get off their asses and innovate some solutions to all the stroke problems out there.
Are they waiting for the dinosaurs to innovate something new at the Joint Commission with their  Comprehensive Stroke Center, or  Primary Stroke Center designations? That is a complete waste of time.
Or are they waiting for the American Stroke Association Get With the Guidelines?
Neither of these are going to occur unless YOU start screaming in their faces.
Problems needing solutions in stroke:
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1. There is no fast, easy and objective way to diagnose a stroke. Maybe when the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize is available. A number of friends have waited hours in ERs until stroke symptoms have visibly manifested themselves.
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2013/11/34-teams-are-building-medical.html

2. Only 10% get to almost full recovery.
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/stroke/stroke_rehabilitation.htm
3. 12% tPA efficacy
http://wrkf.org/.../more-stroke-patients-now-get-clot-busting-drug
4. Nothing being done to stop the neuronal cascade of death during the first week.
http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/2009/01/15/discovery-could-help-scientists-stop-the-death-cascade-after-a-stroke/
5. No one knows how to cure spasticity.
6.  No one knows how to cure fatigue.
7. F.A.S.T is actually a failure because even at its best tPA is only delivered to 33% of those eligible and then of those that get it it only works 12% of the time.
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The TED talk on innovation here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/joi_ito_want_to_innovate_become_a_now_ist?utm_source=newsletter_daily&
“Remember before the internet?” asks Joi Ito. “Remember when people used to try to predict the future?” In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead shares a new approach to creating in the moment: building quickly and improving constantly, without waiting for permission or for proof that you have the right idea. This kind of bottom-up innovation is seen in the most fascinating, futuristic projects emerging today, and it starts, he says, with being open and alert to what’s going on around you right now. Don’t be a futurist, he suggests: be a now-ist.