morell wrote:Nice work Psyber. but external hard drives are just as fraught with danger. To the cloud my man, to the cloud!
Side note: the cloud is the biggest load of wank term I've ever come across. It just means a computer (or series of computers) which you connect to via an internet connection. Used to be called remote services but that wasn't as cool.
As I said I like to retain control and not trust my data to the network of drives on some other system somewhere in the world, or to the owners of those drives wherever they may be. I have a hot-swap set up for external drives and can lock up copies my safe or even at other premises. I had a friend in private practice who kept patient data from an Apple based medical software backed up on a commercial and allegedly secure cloud system which then got hacked. Very embarrassing...
These days of course I am not running my own practice and when I take a temporary job as a consultant interstate my employer is responsible for the data.
At home I can keep it simple because it is only my data - all the old medical practice stuff is past the mandatory time I had to keep it and paper files have been shredded and the computerised carefully erased. ( I went fully computerised in 2003 and billed by computer from 1987.)
