And what do the 200K workers do when the project is over?
They will collect unemployment, but at least it will be partially funded by the taxes they were paying and the unemployment payments they weren't receiving while they had that job. See? Everyone wins!
As someone who works day to day with the handwritten disaster that is a normal chart and can compare it fairly to the amazing repository that is an electronic chart?
I can tell you that there simply IS no comparison.
You must have a young workforce. We are a small hospital that switched to a mostly-electronic record a about five years ago, but we have an older nursing staff. They are STILL resistant to using it. When they are forced to use it, they refuse to remember a password and every time they are made to log in, they call me to reset it... that's so annoying.
Okay, someone please explain the upsides to this for joe public?
Just off the top of my head, the only time I can see this as a benefit is when you are away from home and need emergency treatment (or are senile/otherwise unable to provide the information) and the hospital you are at can get your record and verify any allergies/existing conditions you may have that could interfere with the preferred method of emergency care that they plan on performing.
Oh, I suppose it could also speed up the registration process. Registration takes FOREVER because they have to ask you a ton of questions every time you visit. With properly linked systems, all they need is name, birth date, and perhaps some other simple identification information, and everything they need is right there, and they just have to verify it. However, this kind of interconnectivity is unlikely to happen any time soon, even with unending funds.
FYI, that "cloud" is usually a PACS (Picture Archival and Communicating System), which is basically a SAN (or some other storage system for smaller organizations) attached to a server that has software to deliver and display the images/videos in a coherent way.
Theoretically, sure. But despite HL7 being a "standard" PHI messaging system you still need well-paid interface programmers on either end of the HL7 messaging system to create the interfaces and agree on details. When I first heard of HL7, I thought it was great. Then I saw how it "works" (or doesn't) in the real world.
I'm glad someone mentioned this. Dictation is exactly the place where speech recognition is being advanced, particularly in the medical field. When a doctor is looking at a chart, or a radiologist at film, they don't want to take notes: that's someone else's job. They just talk into a device (usually a glorified phone or PC microphone) and let software translate most of it into a report. Then a transcriptionist just has to quickly look through the document and make sure there aren't any errors (usually very few) and be done with it.
A large hospital can cut its transcription costs in half (or more) by using a system like this.
Imagine this, then: You purchased your car and made modifications so that it could run on diesel as well. Then GM comes along while you are at work and silently takes off your modifications, damaging your car the next time you try to start it up. What then?
People say MS makes bloated, slow software? Apparently these people haven't used iTunes.
I've always wondered why people don't complain about iTunes more. It's such a pain in the ass to have to use it. I just want to drag & drop files and folders onto the mounted device and have it just work. Of course, I made the mistake of buying a Sansa Clip (because it's dirt cheap and works well) and now I have to use Windows Media Player, which is comparably bad.
Meanwhile, your server's file access slows considerably, and during each HD swap you are running a live server with one hard drive. If that drive dies, then your site goes down. With "real" backup methods you can make your backups and survive that disk failure without the site going down.
Still, if you are just using that as proof that it COULD be used for backup... well, yeah, a bad backup method is still backup.
And it has the added bonus of possibly removing one more stupid person from this world, once they decide to clean a live power cord with soap and water.
And seeing this 85 year old granny using a laptop with bleeding-edge virtual machine and 2 operating systems to play bridge online never ceases to amaze me.
The part that amazes me is that you went through all of that so she could play bridge, when you could have skipped the OSX, skipped the virtual machines, etc, paid less for a machine and just installed XP.
Any situation where you maintain ownership and liability of a machine that is handed over to a teenager overnight every day, you've just officially lost.
I think they'd pretty much have to do that, though. Since they are doing this, it seems obvious that the computer is required to complete schoolwork. What happens if the computer stops working, by no fault of the student? Would the student's family be required to purchase another one or pay to have it fixed? If they can't afford it, the student has no way to complete the required schoolwork. Does he have to drop out of school? Does the school buy them a brand new one? Either way, what happens in the time between it breaking and getting a replacement/repair? Does the student have to wait and have their homework build up until they have the computer to finish it?
If it belongs to the school, they can just swap it immediately with another spare they own and do what want with the malfunctioning unit. Plus they will get a better deal buying the laptops in bulk, but that means the warranty (assuming it's in-warranty) is probably assigned to them, and they can take care of that process much easier and with much less confusion than a family that has never had to deal with that kind of headache.
"'Work from home' employees' computers" suggest the employee is using their own PC to do work, not that they have a the company's computer at home. They would be demanding an employee install software on a PC that they do not own. If it really needs to be that secure, they should invest in Terminal services or something similar/better.
> The author said not to PUBLISH the information PUBLICLY. You still tell the families of those involved, but beyond that no one needs to know.
And you don't think that many families of accusers would tell everyone they know that "[defendant] is a f%@%ing RAPIST and someone needs to beat the shit out of him"?
It led to pregnancy. The abortion only happened because of continued choices made by the people involved. Your attempt to distort the reality of the situation at hand marks you as a liar.
I see what you did there: rephrasing a statement does not make a liar of the person who said it. We all knew what he meant.
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And what do the 200K workers do when the project is over?
They will collect unemployment, but at least it will be partially funded by the taxes they were paying and the unemployment payments they weren't receiving while they had that job. See? Everyone wins!
As someone who works day to day with the handwritten disaster that is a normal chart and can compare it fairly to the amazing repository that is an electronic chart?
I can tell you that there simply IS no comparison.
You must have a young workforce. We are a small hospital that switched to a mostly-electronic record a about five years ago, but we have an older nursing staff. They are STILL resistant to using it. When they are forced to use it, they refuse to remember a password and every time they are made to log in, they call me to reset it... that's so annoying.
Okay, someone please explain the upsides to this for joe public?
Just off the top of my head, the only time I can see this as a benefit is when you are away from home and need emergency treatment (or are senile/otherwise unable to provide the information) and the hospital you are at can get your record and verify any allergies/existing conditions you may have that could interfere with the preferred method of emergency care that they plan on performing.
Oh, I suppose it could also speed up the registration process. Registration takes FOREVER because they have to ask you a ton of questions every time you visit. With properly linked systems, all they need is name, birth date, and perhaps some other simple identification information, and everything they need is right there, and they just have to verify it. However, this kind of interconnectivity is unlikely to happen any time soon, even with unending funds.
The files are then tossed in some magical cloud.
FYI, that "cloud" is usually a PACS (Picture Archival and Communicating System), which is basically a SAN (or some other storage system for smaller organizations) attached to a server that has software to deliver and display the images/videos in a coherent way.
There is a standard. It is called HL7.
Theoretically, sure. But despite HL7 being a "standard" PHI messaging system you still need well-paid interface programmers on either end of the HL7 messaging system to create the interfaces and agree on details. When I first heard of HL7, I thought it was great. Then I saw how it "works" (or doesn't) in the real world.
If something is false, a true statement will point out its falsity. Therefore, the false thing is true.
There is a strong connection between LSD and BSD.
Next time try DMT.
Is that a Linux Distro?
what do you want in ten years?
Brawndo.... with extralectrolytes.
I'm glad someone mentioned this. Dictation is exactly the place where speech recognition is being advanced, particularly in the medical field. When a doctor is looking at a chart, or a radiologist at film, they don't want to take notes: that's someone else's job. They just talk into a device (usually a glorified phone or PC microphone) and let software translate most of it into a report. Then a transcriptionist just has to quickly look through the document and make sure there aren't any errors (usually very few) and be done with it.
A large hospital can cut its transcription costs in half (or more) by using a system like this.
Dense much? The device existed already, but it had a different key layout.
Sweet, a car analogy.
Imagine this, then: You purchased your car and made modifications so that it could run on diesel as well. Then GM comes along while you are at work and silently takes off your modifications, damaging your car the next time you try to start it up. What then?
People say MS makes bloated, slow software? Apparently these people haven't used iTunes.
I've always wondered why people don't complain about iTunes more. It's such a pain in the ass to have to use it. I just want to drag & drop files and folders onto the mounted device and have it just work. Of course, I made the mistake of buying a Sansa Clip (because it's dirt cheap and works well) and now I have to use Windows Media Player, which is comparably bad.
bt typng izzo hrd!!!
Meanwhile, your server's file access slows considerably, and during each HD swap you are running a live server with one hard drive. If that drive dies, then your site goes down. With "real" backup methods you can make your backups and survive that disk failure without the site going down.
Still, if you are just using that as proof that it COULD be used for backup... well, yeah, a bad backup method is still backup.
We can only hope they remain silent.
tell them there might be dust in the connector
And it has the added bonus of possibly removing one more stupid person from this world, once they decide to clean a live power cord with soap and water.
And seeing this 85 year old granny using a laptop with bleeding-edge virtual machine and 2 operating systems to play bridge online never ceases to amaze me.
The part that amazes me is that you went through all of that so she could play bridge, when you could have skipped the OSX, skipped the virtual machines, etc, paid less for a machine and just installed XP.
I use them as subtle queues
How does that line up for you?
Umm... more to the point, its a water gun. Am I the only one who doesn't want a water gun by my computer?
. . . PC Companies!
Actually, they probably like the idea... then they can sell you another computer.
Any situation where you maintain ownership and liability of a machine that is handed over to a teenager overnight every day, you've just officially lost.
I think they'd pretty much have to do that, though. Since they are doing this, it seems obvious that the computer is required to complete schoolwork. What happens if the computer stops working, by no fault of the student? Would the student's family be required to purchase another one or pay to have it fixed? If they can't afford it, the student has no way to complete the required schoolwork. Does he have to drop out of school? Does the school buy them a brand new one? Either way, what happens in the time between it breaking and getting a replacement/repair? Does the student have to wait and have their homework build up until they have the computer to finish it?
If it belongs to the school, they can just swap it immediately with another spare they own and do what want with the malfunctioning unit. Plus they will get a better deal buying the laptops in bulk, but that means the warranty (assuming it's in-warranty) is probably assigned to them, and they can take care of that process much easier and with much less confusion than a family that has never had to deal with that kind of headache.
"'Work from home' employees' computers" suggest the employee is using their own PC to do work, not that they have a the company's computer at home. They would be demanding an employee install software on a PC that they do not own. If it really needs to be that secure, they should invest in Terminal services or something similar/better.
> The author said not to PUBLISH the information PUBLICLY. You still tell the families of those involved, but beyond that no one needs to know.
And you don't think that many families of accusers would tell everyone they know that "[defendant] is a f%@%ing RAPIST and someone needs to beat the shit out of him"?
But if you are going to have sex with a stripper, should you pay her to take her clothes off first?
Fucking led to pregnancy and abortion
No, it did not.
It led to pregnancy. The abortion only happened because of continued choices made by the people involved. Your attempt to distort the reality of the situation at hand marks you as a liar.
I see what you did there: rephrasing a statement does not make a liar of the person who said it. We all knew what he meant.
A baby is the last thing those people need, Jesus or not!