Comp TIA Healthcare IT Technician

The book I read to research this post was Comp TIA Healthcare IT Technician by C V Connor which is an excellent book which I downloaded from kindle for free. This book is one of the most interesting free books I have had from kindle. This is an American so probably all that relevant to the job in Britain especially with regard to legal matters. Most of the topic refers to electronic health records although there is also more general information & I think it's interesting even if like me you are a network engineer who doesn't have much to do with healthcare work. The book is structured in the form of multiple choice questions with each having a correct answer and explanation. Some of the information is things like this. The OHSA are responsible for checking the IT equipment in a health practice is up to the job and send inspectors around from time to time to check. OHSA stands for Occupational Health Safety Association. The best way to save space whilst storing lots of files is to have a motorized rotating file storage unit. A patient who is unhappy with his treatment at a practice or hospital would be able to complain under the Patient's Bill Of Rights under 1 of the 8 parts that constitute that. A person with Alzheimers disease would probably be sent to a non acute health facility for support with life. A nursing station that wanted to have chat software installed so they can talk about any problems with a local pharmacy would have to check with the IT administrator prior to installing it as most software of that type has weaknesses that can be exploited by hackers. It is a really interesting book that's is relevant to anyone working in computers.

Electronic Health Records

The book I read to research this post was Electronic Health Records for Dummies by Trenor Williams et al which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. Apparently britain is one of the leading countries in terms of converting health records to electronic means where in 2009 over 90% had been converted. An issue which does come up is what do you do with the old written records do you use them as a back up & do you continue to maintain them or do you shred them to make space & save money & then of course what do you use as a back up. Software which allows you to create & manage electronic health records typically costs $10,000 per practitioner or if you have it as a cloud computing solution is $500 per practitioner per month. My local doctors surgery did a deal where they get the software free but the company that supplies the software can use the general data. That means they won't have the data that ie a certain person has heart disease but ie they know what percentage have heart disease & what treatment they receive etc. A final point something mentioned in the book is google health which has been discounted but microsoft health vault which is more or less the same thing it's basically a patients repository. Also it's free. Particularly if somebody needs a lot of treatment it allows a patient online space where the patient & people that are treating the patient can leave notes obviously they can't put anything controversial down because the patient has got access to it but I thought what a good idea.