Objective: The purpose of this project was to develop an interactive area on the library intranet page where clinicians could post, interact, and read materials about patient safety. A wiki was considered a security risk for the hospital network, so an alternative had to be found.
Methods: The library is staffed by 2 medical librarians and serves a 258-bed teaching hospital. The library director was approached by the head of the obstetrics and gynecology department to assist them in providing a place on the library intranet page where patient safety materials could be found, discussed, etc. It was determined a wiki would be the most appropriate. After attending a wiki class and discussing the project with the hospital information services department, it was determined that a wiki would cause a security risk to the hospital network. Paid wikis were investigated but the cost and the limited number of users based on pricing models did not fit what was being sought. SharedPoint by Microsoft was the product that the library and the information services department finally agreed on. This site is now functioning and being used for the purpose it was made.