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Medical offices are notorious for having machines out of date, not properly secured, and not backed up. Just recently I wanted to get test results from a few y
by JohnTHaller 9y ago
Medical offices are notorious for having machines out of date, not properly secured, and not backed up. Just recently I wanted to get test results from a few years earlier from a previous doctor. Nope, the machine they were on runs a proprietary GE setup and it crashed. The same test a few years earlier? The hospital lost them and had no record of them being done. A different test I had done a month ago was hooked up to an aging Windows XP machine. Yes, it was networked, though I'm unsure if it was intranet only (I doubt it).
In the US, you have to manage your own healthcare. Get every result as a hard copy or on disk (in the case of MRI etc) and save it yourself. And back it up. That way you're prepared.
- rorykoehler 9y agoI recently went to a consultancy sales meeting with a GP who wanted me to port the MS Dos Patient Record Management system used by his medical centre to the cloud. While I'm sure with a suitable budget it could have been figured out the fact that I could only find a handful of references to the database file format when searching google didn't bode well. It looked like I would have to reverse engineer the parsing and interpretation of the bytecode. In the end my advice was to hire data entry professionals to do it manually.
- JohnTHaller 9y agoYou likely preserved your own sanity and theirs.