Recently, I visited my GP (the Doctor). The necessary update and renewal of my prescription was at hand. While we were chatting during my exam, I asked the Doctor a few questions about my past prognosis (history). She had no idea what he was talking about. I said, “Doctor, you have been treating me for over eight years and you have treated me for a serious illness.” “What do you think or how do you feel about the way the treatment turned out? The look of someone who was in the twilight zone appeared on his face, the look of someone who has switched places with my doctor. I described the diagnosis and prognosis of the total experience so far, his behavior abruptly changed to OK, now I remember the mode.
Then the doctor began to explain the how and why of his patient record keeping system. Patient records were kept in an outdated wall display filing system in the administration part of this very large and prominent city hospital clinic. I asked him, “Doc, why don’t you have my records on hand for your review instead of making a whole new file with me?” He then explained that if a patient has not been to the office for more than two years, the printed files go to a central repository for storage. And shortly after the records hit the repository, in no time, they are destroyed. I then asked the doctor what would happen if a medical professional needed to access a patient’s medical history to aid in the diagnosis and comparison of a new disease. The only answer he could give me was “the hospital could not afford to store old patient files.” I asked, isn’t it a dangerous practice? She answered yes.
However, my doctor agreed with the need for an electronic medical record keeping system for all hospitals, especially one as large as this one.
I was appalled at the lack of technology that major hospitals and medical facilities in many cities and counties do not incorporate into their daily responsibilities. Not to mention my anger at the danger factor of not having access to patient records, regardless of the time that has passed between doctor visits. An EMR system will help save lives, treat and prevent disease across this planet, its people, animals, and ways of life.
In my first report, “IT and BI,” I mentioned the steps that beginning technology students must take to rise to the highest level of professional achievement in the world of computers.
The first step is to understand how computers work and the mindset that must match the brainwashing (training) it takes to adapt to your communication languages and networks. I do not consider myself an expert in the profession.
However, I have reached a comfortable level within the world of IT and BI that I am happy to participate in. Like many people (especially older students) it had to start somewhere. That somewhere was the desire to become a computer expert. It has grown from there … and continues to grow. I keep eating, sleeping and breathing IT and BI.
Our country, as well as the rest of the world, needs the EMR System. The system requires operators for ETL and other operational functions. This system will be implemented whether hospital administrators like it or not … whether they can afford it or not. And people to maintain and operate the functions of such a system is inevitable. As an avid data miner and RDBMS practitioner, I constantly study trends, reports, articles, and technology in EMR database systems, as well as networking and communications hardware and software. You don’t have to be a scholar and / or a tech genius to learn things.
All you need is the desire and the will to believe that you can function within the world of computers. I have included some facts regarding the beginner in mind within this report. If you are one of those people who cannot afford to enter a classroom / training environment, I recommend that you go to a bookstore or library and get all the relevant (and not so relevant) material that you can get your hands on. Read, study and practice (find someone who will let you use your PC or Mac, if you don’t have one) using the software and your hardware to learn the languages and applications.
Here are some initial facts to help you understand PCs and networks:
Management information systems (MIS)
The difference between hardware and software:
Hardware is the things that you can see, touch and feel, that is, a central processor, a printer, a monitor, a variety of electronic components and machines; physical components; The software is the languages and the operating systems; the control and support of a computer system; instructions, programs, discs; usable and replaceable parts of the total system.
Some characteristics of the processing functions are: data is changed or transformed into information to compare, classify, calculate, etc.
The difference between data and information is: data is defined as the raw material entered into the processing system, that is, the keyboard; Information is processed data that is processed into meaningful information.
The definition of SOP (standard operating process) is protocol, the rules or conventions that govern the format and transmission of messages exchanged between the computer and terminal devices.
The key categories of IST (Information Systems Technical) are: hardware, software, storage and telecommunications.
What is TPS? (Transportation Process Systems) – The systems that control scheduling, routing, inventory, materials, and transportation information.
The MIS (Management Information Systems) are oriented almost exclusively to internal organizational events; a system that helps the management in the taking, execution and control of decisions, planning and management; assist management in the performance of their work; Bringing the right information to the right people at the right time.
The definition of the characteristics of the DSS (Decision Support System) is:
Helps to make decisions under conditions of uncertainty; situation analysis, graphs and other visual exhibits can be transmitted and displayed when necessary to clarify a point; access files, make accurate forecasts, prepare short-term profit plans and long-term / range projections, provide pre-planning information in budget preparation, calculate variances, activate revised forecasts, act as an early warning system, perform all the procedure with great speed and precision.
The definition of ESS (Executive Support Systems) is: the executive support system is aimed at an individual executive or a group of executives that involves a separate file of personal data, stripped or created from a main file oriented to the needs of the individual executive.
The characteristics of the knowledge and information-based economy are (high technology – little hope):
The labor market shift polarized wages and incomes, high-tech and service jobs may be causing poverty rather than curing it, a shift from physical work to mainstream work, 75% of jobs were in manufacturing, but lost to the service industry and the information revolution, the information revolution, the electronic revolution, the second industry revolution.
An information system can be defined as a system that helps to manufacture and execute control devices based on the physical facilities available; A computer, a calculator, an adding machine, a book, etc.
The group responsible for monitoring the daily activities is called International Data Corporation.
Characteristics of the information age:
The first year that PCs were commercially available, ¾ of the jobs in Americans were in manufacturing. The expectations for the future were to live better than the people of the past. Around 1950. Interest rates averaged 2%.
High tech – little hope:
Knowledge based on information gathered about economic change.
Pascal Lebowitz developed the first adding machine.
Processing characteristics:
Perform and manipulate operations on data.
Speech recognition would be an example of an input device: accepting data and then analyzing the sound input.
What does DOS mean and why do we need it?
DOS – Disk Operating System, a program that contains the control signals for the computer. A DOS system monitors and operates the following programs loaded on the computer. It is the main central program used by the computer.
The difference between data and information: data is raw material entered into a computer system; the information is processed data; information with understandable meaning.
The characteristic of processing functions is that raw data is transformed into logical information through a process of manipulated and analytical functions.
The 5 functions of a computer are:
The ability to accept data is the input device where data is output through an analytical and manipulative function, as well as automatically executing instructional programs in order to perform mathematical logistics in a series of functions known as processing.
The output is a data manipulative operation and reporting the results of its findings to the computer operator to assist him in his performance of a job and / or personal information and / or entertainment. The five functions are input, store, process, execute, and output.
General systems
An environment consisting of many personal computers, workstations, and servers, interconnected by high-speed networks and dispersed over small or large geographic areas.
The attractions of such a system are widely recognized; each user has autonomy and control over the destination of their own resources. Each user benefits from the information and data to share files. Connectivity to servers allows sharing of expensive resources (forms of desktop services disk).
Visual Basic is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that enables the creation of applications designed to run like the Windows operating environment. These applications are GUI (Graphical User Interface) based programs that use the event driven program model (Multi-Component Writing to Control / Execute Programming – Procedural Programming).
Operating systems
The collection of computer programs that control user interaction and computer hardware is called the operating system (OS). The operating system of a computer is often compared to the conductor of an orchestra, since it is the software that is responsible for directing all the operations of the computer and managing all the resources of the computer.
Typically, part of the operating system is permanently stored on a read-only chip (ROM) so that it is available as soon as the computer is turned on. A computer can see the values in read-only memory, but cannot write new values to the chip. The ROM-based operating system partition contains the instructions necessary to load the rest of the operating system code, which normally resides on a disk, into memory.
Loading the operating system into memory is called booting the computer. Now press the power button.
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