[humanser] organizing information, more work-related questions

Fri Apr 22 15:17:25 UTC 2016

Organisations don't like their information in an unsecured setting.   There have been some horrible situations in which a physician's laptop has been either stollen from their car or left on the subway....  filled with patient information.  Its a confidentiality nightmare.  j

One hospital I work with has made noises about allowing people to bring their own mobile device to work.   This hasn't happened yet and I am sure that figureing out how to protect the info is quite a nightare.    I think the fact that you can wipe your iPhone clean from a distance is one of the reasons this is being considered.    I think Blackberry has a similar feature.   The idea being that if you lose the device, the information can be destroyed b/f anyone else can get it.

Having said that, contact information for organisations is not personal health information and you should be able to have your own database of all of that on your mobile device.

On my team, our staff are all out in the community through the day.   They all have amased a huge contact list over the years and would be completely at a loss without their phones (and I am on the only visually impaired team member.)

Ginny

Please note that my e-mail address has changed as of March 29, 2016 to:    Gduff at stjoestoronto.ca<mailto:Gduff at stjoestoronto.ca>

Dr. V. Duff
Clinical Director, West End ACT Team,
St. Joseph's Heatlh Centre , Toronto
Staff Psychiatrist, Complex Mental Illness, CAMH
Lecturer, University of Toronto
Tel:   416.530.6000, ext 3101
FAX:   416.530.6363

On Apr 22, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Reyazuddin, Yasmin via Humanser <humanser at nfbnet.org<mailto:humanser at nfbnet.org>> wrote:

Hi everyone,
I believe it has to do with confidentiality. Also, if one is not allowed to take the laptop to a community event, how one will use a cell phone. Unless one has unlimited data plan and other such resources, I would not use my cell phone.
Technology is helpful, but do not depend on it. People still like to use paper and pen, that is why, the organization wants the forms to be completed.

Yasmin Reyazuddin
Aging & Disability Services
Montgomery County Government
Department of Health & Human Services
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Subject: Re: [humanser] organizing information, more work-related questions

Just curious, what is the rationale for not allowing her thumb drives? Could you save stuff on an external drive?

Ericka Short
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from my iPhone

On Apr 21, 2016, at 8:43 PM, Lisa Irving via Humanser <humanser at nfbnet.org<mailto:humanser at nfbnet.org>> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm pretty excited to share that my employer purchased JAWS. I'm a bit
nervous that, for the most part, I've been left out of the loop. I've
done my best to provide resources and support. I hope to tell you
sometime next week that all is well with JAWS on the workplace desktop.

I've learned a little bit more about some of my job responsibilities
and, of course, that brings up additional questions. Here are my
questions. I apologize if they're not clear.

At this point I will not have the option to take a company laptop into
the community and I'm not supposed to use my personal laptop for work purposes.
This poses challenges at a number of levels. One concern I have has to
do with paperwork that I pass out to participants at the end of a
meeting. The group is asked to fill out the form. I'm supposed to
collect the completed forms; take them back to the office; look over
the form to see if any participant has requested information or  phone
contact. I'm also supposed to do something with tallying information
I'm supposed to photocopy each form and put it into a particular
hard-copy file.. I'm not too clear about that task. I don't know how
to pull all of this together and do my job without a laptop. Ideas?

I know that JD and others shared how they organize resources. I'm
still a little lost. I've got a bag of print brochures; flyers and
other papers that I've collected at a couple of resource fairs and at
Earth Day. I understand that I can use the Pearl Camera to scan each
item. I don't know how to organize the information from that point. I
don't know how I'm supposed to retrieve a resource without the use of a laptop. Ideas?

Last week I was tasked with finding faith-based organizations. I
worked from home; used the internet and tried editing some of the lists I found.
Subsequently while at work, and without internet access, I used my
cell phone to get phone numbers for some of the places; there's over
500 places of worship listed. At work I've called some of these places
to  introduce faith-based leaders and their members to our
organization and our approach to living with a mental health
challenge; wellness education and other tools as defined by the participant, including meaning and purpose/spirituality.
Some of these organizations asked to have information emailed. I've
got their email information and it's not well organized. For example,
I have a list of places of faith that begins with the letter "A".
There's probably 30 places. I've started to create headings; that's
tedious and maybe not the most effective way to list these places.
I've been inserting phone numbers and email addresses into a word
document. There's got to be a more effective way to do all of this. What is it?

I've been permitted to use my laptop and work from home for the past
few weeks. Now I have saved work emails; the faith-based project and a
few resources. I don't know how to finish the faith-based project if I
can't transfer it from my laptop to the company's desktop. (We can't
use thumb drives).

Thanks so much to JD, Carli and so many of you for doing a little
hand-holding and sharing tips-n-tricks.

From,

Lisa Irving

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