Cedric Meyerowitz wrote:
Tim
Your options are to buy an extra PC that you keep at work to test backups.
Or have a PC at home that is yours and do it there. Thirdly, use your kids
PC. All you do afterwards is delete the database again, but for that you
need some know how. Fourthly get an IT expert to do it for you, but then he
has a copy of your data & who knows what he or she will do with it.
Now at home I also have firewalls, antivirus software etc. My kids can't
get into my Medcal software as it is password protected etc. My firewall
etc at home is just as good as mine at work.
So with your fears it seems the 1st option is the only one ie. The Doctors
that don't know, must buy an extra PC to test backups. In my case I simply
test my backups at home. In an emergency (if AGPAL wants to see how I test
my backups), I can restore it onto one of my work stations - again something
a non IT literate GP may muck up.
Cedric,
What you do and have is a bad example, as you aren't an average GP. Most
GPs can't do what you do or recognise the need for it.
Yes, you've also raised some extra interesting issues. I have a test
conversion to MD3 of a medical centre's database on my server at home,
waiting for the GP to check it. But then, I'm not your average tech.
support guy either, I'm a health/welfare professional with 25 years
experience in dealing with patient records and privacy, so I may have a
better idea than some about what's appropriate.
Oh, and the standards say nothing about requiring privacy agreements
from tech. support people.
Greg
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