Hopefully this will change in the next 3 years due to it being compulsory for 3rd Standards Accreditation,RACGP.
Of note though, many practices rushed through their next accreditation visits before 31st Dec 06 just to avoid 3rd Standards. This is why it will be 3 years for some to address the backup/restore issue. fee >-- Original Message -- >From: "Cedric Meyerowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'General Practice Computing Group Talk'" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] Open letter to Medtech >Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:37:56 +1100 >Reply-To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> > > >David, quite correct. I'm amazed how many people incl. Dr's don't do >regular backups or no backups at all, and some never test their backups. > >Cedric > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of David Guest >Sent: Monday, 12 February 2007 9:30 AM >To: General Practice Computing Group Talk >Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Open letter to Medtech > > >Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: >> Hosrt >> >> The only Data losses I have had in 10years plus of full electronic >> medical records was due to the medical software I used & not the >> operating system. The only exception to this was the 1st releases of >> Win95. Win95 had problems of not always saving data. Since that was >> rectified by MS the only other data losses were due to the medical >> software & not the OS. I know of lots of people that has had & still >> have data loses but most of them was due to not doing backups - but >> none are due to the OS, and eventually the system crashes etc. Then >> the cost is very high and the IT people make excellent money trying to > >> salvage it. >> >Most data loss is due to hard drive failure and your recovery is only as >good as your last backup. An early version of Reiser ate my hard drive but >it such a cool file system I forgave him and have had no troubles since. > >It's a tragedy that he killed his wife but you know how annoying those >Russian doctors can be. > >David > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Gpcg_talk mailing list >[email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > >_______________________________________________ >Gpcg_talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
