Online data base assignment

Having to mtake this class in college is opening my eyes to the different technology that is out there. Online database.  It allows you to create a database for whatever you may need it for. I partically liked this one because it was easy to use and let you do a variety of different things. www.trackvia.com

Should Print Media just go away/

Everywhere people go there is some sort of technology. Some people embrace the latest and greatest, while some people shy away from it. Maybe they don't understand it or are afraid that if they get involved, the need and expense would never end. After all, you don't start nuthin there won't be nuthin, right? You can't get addicted to something you never start.

Those people who either can't afford the technology, or they shy away from it, still need and deserve to get the news and entertainment from somewhere. A newspaper or magazine provides an array of news and entertainment. The printed media is something tangible. You can clip pictures out or save articles that mean something to you. You get to socialize with the paperboy or gossip in the checkout line as you browse through the magazines.

I like reading printed media. For some reason it is easier to comprehend for me. I like the ads and pictures that are provided. It has nostalgic feelings for me also. I remember going over the Sunday paper with my Dad. First we would study the world around us, always learning. Then the SUNDAY COMICS!! It was a highlight for me and my Dad.

Printed media is still keeping up with technology. They provide the articles online so that people can read them at work sitting at their desk, pretending they are working. You can even get the latest celebrity gossip streamed to your cell phone, just in case Lindsey Lohan did something more damaging to her career while you were sleeping.

Medical Information Y or N?

I feel that your medical information should be in your hands. If you wants to have your medical information to be seen by God and all asunder then by all means, this is what should happen. If this is the case, then you cannot complain when the pharmaceutical corps. come knocking down your door with advertisements or unwanted advise about your condition(s). Having the many children that I do, I think it would be easier if there was a card I could carry that would have everyones medical history, medicines, and allergies on it. It would eleminate the need to sit there and try to remember what medications my sister is on during an emergency.

I would like this card to have the ability to be updated by my doctors, through a computer at either end. Their office or my home. I would like to have something tangible in my hand,  so that if there is a malfunction, i.e. a similar name or computer network problem (think cloud) I have the information with me. To be read by any computer.

I picked this subject because I work in the medical field. I have seen time and time again either patient love ones or direct information from the hospital be wrong. Someone cannot remember an allergy to a drug or what happened when they took that drug. If they had a card with all the information on it (provided it was updated) there would be no second guessing.

The only people who should have access to this medical information are the people who you want to have it.