Computers in the Workplace

 I choose healthcare because it is very important to have computer skills in this field. There are so many medical files on computers now that if there was a breach at a hospital. Someone can get thousands and thousands of people's personal and medical information. In healthcare, they use computers to look up the patient medical information and to add any information to their files. They also have medical transcripts which their job is to make sure all the person's files are put together printed out and on the computer. They also print a lot of things and copy them for their records. They might print a lot to mail to their patients. They also started to have medical websites where the patients can see their appointments and medical records. Patients now can mail their doctor and make an appointment.  It's very important to know computers in this industry because they put every medical record in the computer now and they got to add things and change them constantly.

In the next 10 years, the healthcare industry is going to be doing everything that it can possibly do on the computer even ordering your prescription on websites so you can pick it up from the store or it mailed or delivered from the pharmacy. It's going to need more cybersecurity in the medical field because so many things are online and on a computer. We are all going to be checking into our appointments by computers. They already have this at my doctor's office.

Andrea