Technology use in government and healthcare administration -- actually any office that uses paper. So many offices are so horribly out of date, think about all the papers you have to fill out for everything -- pen and paper, writing down your same address a million times on a million different papers sent to a million different offices. People reading your address and hand translating it into a million different databases or manually cross-referencing it to other papers.
It's enough to drive you crazy. These people are doing office work as if computers don't even exist.
So called "smart phones" aren't capable of solving this problem. For whatever reason, we lack the software capability of using our technology to really make these mundane tasks of sharing information easier.
I haven't seen it yet, but you can apparently apply for some jobs with a linkedin button.
Would be nice to have a similar set of health data, under my supervision, that I can submit to a new doc or hospital.
EDIT: Looks like an opportunity for someone to fill the role of LinkedIn for health data, instead of employment data. The various more or less stove-piped doctors, hospitals and agencies are going to take a long time to coordinate their data, and get it correct, if ever. I, however, am very motivated to keep my data up to date and available.
I recently saw a new doctor and was pleased that she had online history forms. I filled them out with pleasure. Then at my first visit ... wait for it ... I filled out paper forms with the same information. gack!
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Technology use in government and healthcare administration -- actually any office that uses paper. So many offices are so horribly out of date, think about all the papers you have to fill out for everything -- pen and paper, writing down your same address a million times on a million different papers sent to a million different offices. People reading your address and hand translating it into a million different databases or manually cross-referencing it to other papers.
It's enough to drive you crazy. These people are doing office work as if computers don't even exist.
So called "smart phones" aren't capable of solving this problem. For whatever reason, we lack the software capability of using our technology to really make these mundane tasks of sharing information easier.
I haven't seen it yet, but you can apparently apply for some jobs with a linkedin button.
Would be nice to have a similar set of health data, under my supervision, that I can submit to a new doc or hospital.
EDIT: Looks like an opportunity for someone to fill the role of LinkedIn for health data, instead of employment data. The various more or less stove-piped doctors, hospitals and agencies are going to take a long time to coordinate their data, and get it correct, if ever. I, however, am very motivated to keep my data up to date and available.
I recently saw a new doctor and was pleased that she had online history forms. I filled them out with pleasure. Then at my first visit ... wait for it ... I filled out paper forms with the same information. gack!