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Re: doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 7:30 pm
by GumbyCT
BlackSpinner wrote:GumbyCT wrote:While I understand the need to block some sites, the users who need legitimate access can be granted permission on their userid logon. I do hope your IT dept wises up. Could it be they simply don't know how to grant the required permissions?
Or the department heads could arrange for the installation of their own wi-fi connections like they did in our company - affectionately referred to as "deathstars". ..
Where there is a will ....there is a way!
Re: doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 7:39 pm
by GumbyCT
Oh and with the push for national healthcare, I can't see not having a paper copy of the prescription being a problem in the future.
Re: doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:33 am
by howkim
mstevens wrote:When the head of OB-Gyn gets blocked from doing a search on breastfeeding on a given drug because "breast" is apparently too titillating, when I as the head of the Psychiatry department am blocked from sites that discuss street drugs or Facebook after a high-school kid was killed (and the rest of the kids were posting stuff I needed to be able to monitor), or when the head of Pediatrics is blocked from accessing websites with information about kids' summer camps, it's clear that logic is not going to prevail. For a time, our web filter blocked our electronic prescribing software, including while I was doing training for the primary care doctors with the head of IT in attendance. She was, apparently, not in the least embarrassed by that. Keep in mind, all that nonsense is just with our web filter. My neuropsychologist, who does tests that can only be done on a computer, needs many months of lead time to get a simple update to a test done. We have hundreds to thousands of dollars' worth of test software that hasn't even been installed yet.
Another insanity: When I was working as the librarian for a (now defunct) pharmaceutical company, the IT department blocked access to the FDA website. It was about drugs, you see.
Re: doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:41 am
by mstevens
howkim wrote:Another insanity: When I was working as the librarian for a (now defunct) pharmaceutical company, the IT department blocked access to the FDA website. It was about drugs, you see.
For about a week, I was blocked from accessing the Drug Enforcement Administration website, so I couldn't renew my DEA registration (at least at work). The rant that elicited from me was somewhat epic
Re: doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:27 am
by chunkyfrog
If anyone wants to know whatever became of the Keystone Kops; they are working in IT.
Re: doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:31 am
by Bluecat
And don't think that only happens in the States...
For a few weeks, I couldn't access my own company's website on my work computer...
Re: doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:52 am
by chunkyfrog
I just hate it when I know it's the lazy slob in IT loading the same screening program onto everyone's computer instead of setting up customized permissions.
Sometimes the stupid decisions get made 'upstairs' where the IT guy was unable or unwilling to explain the ramifications to management so they could make an intelligent choice. IT, this rant is for you.
Re: doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 12:09 pm
by archangle
chunkyfrog wrote:I just hate it when I know it's the lazy slob in IT loading the same screening program onto everyone's computer instead of setting up customized permissions.
Sometimes the stupid decisions get made 'upstairs' where the IT guy was unable or unwilling to explain the ramifications to management so they could make an intelligent choice. IT, this rant is for you.
Unfortunately, the top company manglement may not be willing to pay the expense for IT to custom configure a lot of individual machines and do it right. Don't forget that having your network and servers hacked is a big expense to a lot of companies. Doing a bunch of custom configurations is expensive and the payback is hard to see.
chunkyfrog wrote:explain the ramifications to management so they could make an intelligent choice.
If you have the speaking ability to explain things to management and have them make an intelligent choice, you wouldn't be working for IT, you'd make a lot more money using your magical hypnotic speaking ability to convince people to just give you money. Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Re: doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 1:02 pm
by BlackSpinner
archangle wrote:
If you have the speaking ability to explain things to management and have them make an intelligent choice, you wouldn't be working for IT, you'd make a lot more money using your magical hypnotic speaking ability to convince people to just give you money. Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Gods YES! Management lays down these rules, IT implements them. Try and explain something to management like that - good luck! "oh use open source, write it your self and get IBM to install it "= $8000 versus buy a license for $300 but we are not allowed to buy licenses..... It took a year of budget meetings and explanations to get the $300 license.
The problem is that management lays down the rules and some code monkey who doesn't know your job is told to implement it. This code monkey has no authority to adjust anything, and no budget to spend time to adjust anything either. This code monkey often gets rocks thrown at them from all sides so they burn out and the next fresh out of school code monkey is hired at a lower rate.
Re: doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 1:21 pm
by howkim
chunkyfrog wrote:I just hate it when I know it's the lazy slob in IT loading the same screening program onto everyone's computer instead of setting up customized permissions.
Sometimes the stupid decisions get made 'upstairs' where the IT guy was unable or unwilling to explain the ramifications to management so they could make an intelligent choice. IT, this rant is for you.
LOL!! Before my librarian days, when I started work at a LARGE company in Manhattan, the IT guys tried to pull some BS about a particular database couldn't give me a report I needed. I looked at them and told them that I had a 3.4 GPA in my computer classes, and NOT to try that again on me. They didn't. As a matter of fact, I came to be one of the local people they tried out new computer programs on. I LOVE breaking computer programs!