On Tuesday 02 February 2010 07:46:51 pm John Andersen wrote:
On 2/2/2010 6:39 PM, John E. Perry wrote:
On 02/03/2010 05:12 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
If you'll be able to work with it while you're recuperating, you might ask the hospital if they have internet for patients. It's been a while since I had anything to do with a hospital myself, but visiting at least two family members during their stay, both hospitals had wifi access, one in the waiting rooms, and the other in the patients' rooms.
John Perry
Wifi in a hospital?
Seems like a good way to catch a virus.
Lol, it's usually either ethernet or dsl, but they do have wifi in some... and yes these have the highest amount of lock down... Other than email and simple browsing there's not much more you can do - a lot ot times flash/shockwave is blocked and you can't dl jack! And patient accounts are completely seperate then that of the hospital data systems.... But then again, the MD have complete access and most don't have a clue about security.... The admins are very busy people overall tending to their systems. I left one HC system doing home health because they patient records and charting systems were A) antiquated and B) easily corrupted. I lost one patients' complete record - legally scarry! When I left, I had to finish up some things and my boss was present - one of the orders I had written disappeared before her eyes.... into the void (which I pointed out to her at the time was one of the prime reasons I was leaving). Don't expect too much from health care systems... Senior Business Execs make decisions that the IT departments scurry to deal with - the executives usually think in terms of marketing (how to fill beds) and the any liabilities therein. IT departments often have fits trying to comply with HIPAA and SarbOx, etc... Ciao. Curtis -- BEWARE! Spammers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Those throwing objects at the alligators will be asked to retrieve them! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org