Recently, I visited my general practitioner (the Doctor). The necessary update and renewal of my prescription was at hand. While we were talking during my exam, I asked the Doctor a few questions about my previous prognosis (history). She had no idea what she was talking about. I told him, “Doctor, she has been treating me for more than eight years, and she has 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 came over her face, the look of someone who has switched places with my doctor. I described the diagnosis and prognosis of the total experience so far.Her behavior made an abrupt change to OK mode, now I remember.

The doctor then began to explain the how and why of his patient record keeping system. Patient records were kept in an outdated wall-mounted folding filing system in the back office of this very large and prominent city hospital clinic. I asked him, “Doc, why don’t you have my records handy to review instead of making a whole new file on me?” He then explained that if a patient has not come to the office for more than two years, the printed files go to a central repository for storage. And soon after the records arrive at the repository, before long, they are destroyed. I then asked the doctor what would happen if a medical professional needed to access a patient’s medical records to help diagnose and compare 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 that a dangerous practice? She replied 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 horrified by 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 how much time has elapsed between doctor visits. An EMR system will help save lives, treat and prevent disease across the planet, its people, animals and life forms.

In my first report, “IT and BI,” I outlined the steps beginning technology students need to take to move up to the highest level of professional achievement in the world of computers.

The first step is to understand how computers work and the mindset you need to match the brainwashing (training) it takes to adapt to their languages ​​and communication 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 where I am happy to play on the side. Like many people (especially older students), I had to start somewhere. 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 needs 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 the 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 for 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 willingness to believe that you can function in the world of computers. I have included some information regarding the beginner in mind within this report. If you’re one of those people who can’t afford to get into a classroom or training environment, I recommend going to a bookstore or library and getting all the relevant (and not-so-relevant) stuff you might have. in your hands. , read, study and practice (find someone to 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 you can see, touch and feel, ie a central processor, a printer, a monitor, a variety of electronic and mechanical parts; physical components; The software is the languages ​​and operating systems; control and support of a computer system; instructions, programs, disks; usable and replaceable portions of the total system.

Some characteristics of the processing functions are: the data is modified or transformed into information to compare, order, calculate, etc.

The difference between data and information is: data is defined as 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 technicians) are: hardware, software, storage and telecommunications.

What is GST? (Transportation Process Systems) – the systems that control scheduling, routing, inventory, materials, and transportation information.

MIS (Management Information Systems) are oriented almost exclusively to internal organizational events; a system that helps management make, carry out and control decisions, plan and manage; assists management in the performance of their work; Get the right information to the right people at the right time.

The definition of the characteristics of the DSS (Decision Support System) are:

Help in making decisions under conditions of uncertainty; analyzes situations, charts, and other visual displays can be broadcast and shown when necessary to clarify a point; file access, makes accurate forecasts, prepares short-term earnings plans and long-term/range projections, provides pre-planning information in budgeting, calculates variances, triggers revised forecasts, acts as an early warning system, performs the entire procedure with great speed and precision.

The definition of ESS (Executive Support Systems) is: executive support system is designed for an individual executive or a group of executives that involves a separate personal data file, stripped or created from a main file oriented to the needs of the solo executive.

The characteristics of the knowledge and information-based economy are (high technology – little hope):

Changing job market polarized wages and income, high tech and service jobs may be causing poverty rather than curing it, a shift from physical to head work, 75% of jobs were in manufacturing but they were lost in the service industry and the computer revolution. , the information revolution, the electronic revolution, the second industrial revolution.

An information system can be defined as a system that helps to manufacture and run control devices based on the available physical facilities; A computer, a calculator, an adding machine, a book, etc.

The group responsible for monitoring daily activities claims to be called the International Data Corporation.

Characteristics of the Information Age:

The first year PCs became commercially available, ¾ of Americans’ jobs were in manufacturing. The expectations for the future were to live better than the people of the past. Circa 1950. Interest rates averaged 2%.

High Tech – Little Hope:

Knowledge based on information collected about the change in the economy.

Pascal Lebowitz developed the first adding machine.

Processing features:

To perform and manipulate operations on data.

Speech recognition would be an example of an input device: accepting data and then parsing 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 subsequent programs loaded on the computer. It is the main core program used by the computer.

The difference between data and information: data is raw material entered into a computer system; information is processed data; information with understandable meaning.

The characteristics of the processing functions is that the raw data is transformed into logical information through a process of analytical and manipulated 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 the automatic execution of instruction programs in order to perform mathematical logistics in a series of functions known as processing.

The output is a data manipulation operation and the reporting of the results of your findings to the computer operator who helps you perform work 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. Every user benefits from sharing information and file data. Connectivity with servers allows sharing of expensive resources (disk forms of desktop services).

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 (writing multiple components to control/execute programming – procedural programming).

Operating systems

The collection of computer programs that control the interaction of the user and the computer hardware is called the operating system (OS). A computer’s operating system is often compared to the conductor of an orchestra, since it is the software that is responsible for directing all of the computer’s operations and managing all of the computer’s resources.

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 partition of the operating system 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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