Doesn’t really matter what you use as long as you aren’t utilizing any protected health information (hpi). If you are using information that can identify a patient then you need to be using an approved encrypted device. Generally providers tend to avoid utilizing that type of information just out of habit.

You don’t really discuss patient information or their care with anyone over mobile devices. If you need input from someone directly concerning patient care you tend to do it over EMR so your colleagues have context about who you’re talking about.

Y’all were doing that on pagers? I don’t even know how to send anything on mine.

I mean as long as they aren’t sending protected health information it really isn’t a HIPAA violation. We use an encrypted pager at my clinic, but that’s just because the hospitals guidelines are stricter than HIPAAs. For what we and most providers still use pagers for nowadays could be done over an unencrypted network. Most of the time it’s just to call us to a certain room number. It’s not like people really have the patience to type out words using two buttons at more.

Eh, I still have a pager and so do a lot of other people in hospitals. It’s mainly because most hospitals have locations that eat cell phone reception.

wouldn’t stop using SMS instead of their pagers. Every time their excuse was “I don’t like the pager, it’s old.

Wouldn’t stop using SMS instead of their pagers for what? My office still has pagers, but that’s mainly because we’re in the hospital’s basement and don’t have very good reception.

The rest of the hospital generally works off of sms for messaging when a patient is roomed, or for being on call. I don’t know how you could break hipaa using a sms in place of a pager.

Eh… I would be more concerned than anything. America is just the proving ground for corporations. We get to be the lab rats before the corporations export their practices to the rest of the world. There’s a reason why most liberal democracies been sliding further and further right.

You guys are looking at the wrong thing. Airports have their own set of bullshit rules. According to the government choosing to fly automatically implies consent to be searched. Domestic flights have more protections, but international flights basically wave your right to privacy under the 4th.

They only require explicit consent or probable cause if they want to do an advanced or forensic search of your phone. You can deny the search if you’re a citizen, but if you choose that option they can take your phone into custody for several weeks to attempt to crack it if they choose to do so.

Unfortunately according to the federal government you automatically consent to limited 4th amendment protections when you choose to fly. Domestic flights have more legal protections, but international flights basically wave your right to privacy.

They are allowed to ask for your phone’s password and do a “non-forensic” search of your phone for just about any reason. A more extensive “forensic” search where they plug your phone into another device can be made if they present reasonable suspicion. If you refuse a search they can hold onto your phone for several weeks.

The smarter move would have been to just refuse to give the password and trust that they wont want to go through the hassle of cracking your phone once it’s in custody.

Basically the only real way to protect yourself is to not keep any incriminating information on your phone. The courts have ruled that these searches only extend to data that can be physically accessed on your device and things like social media and cloud storage are not subject to the search. So it’s just best to save everything on the cloud and then restore it once you are done traveling.

The only one mentioning “breaking China’s hold” is you in this thread.

Did you not read the article you posted?

You have also referenced competing with China several other times in this thread…

insecure about “Chinese dominance”

It would be nice if there were something to be insecure about. That would personally benefit me as I live in the US. I would welcome an influx of production based employment, but we’re too busy giving tax breaks to oil tycoons.

Chinese troll farm employee even if I don’t take into consideration your quite telling username.

Lol, you are a fucking idiot. Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that began in the US in the late 1820’s. Please enlighten me…what is so telling about my username?

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt since it seems like English isn’t your first language.

Finding sources of rare earth minerals is easy. Mining those resources is easy. Processing those minerals into actual usable material is the complicated and expensive part. Investing in that part of the process is how China cornered the market.

So claiming a new mining company is going to break China’s hold over the rare earth material market is incredibly stupid.

All of these raw materials are found all over the place. They aren’t exactly rare, they are just rare when compared to something like iron. The reason China dominates these fields isn’t because of their mining capabilities, it’s their processing facilities. They invested billions of dollars on the infrastructure when most western countries refuse to invest in themselves because rich people refuse to pay taxes.

Any company claiming they’ve found a mining source that can make any country a dominant producer is just trying to attract VC funding.

Technically you can sue anyone for anything. Whether you’re going to win a judgment, or be rewarded more than you spend winning is a different question.

the analysis excluded minor incidents involving Waymos that would likely not have been reported to the police had a human been driving,”

I feel like this is a pretty glaring flaw in the study… They got to redefine what they consider to be a collision and ended up negating nearly 80% of the reports. Something tells me they didn’t comb through the data from human reports and do the same.

Yeah, I had multiple one+ phones for years. The last one I got was literally unusable after the first update and customer services was non existent.

Sounds more like the nurses were fired in retaliation for participating in a strike led by their union and the hospital is trying to make it seem like they did it because AI made their jobs irrelevant.

From what I read it looked like the nurses mainly worked in patient discharge, which isn’t really a job that AI could realistically do. Half the time there isn’t really a lot of information that would be accessible, a lot of the info would be entered after discharge when the attending provider is doing their notes.

He arguable set up the Republican base towards Trumpism.

I mean if that’s how we are judging them, what do you think Trump’s presidency is going to set up for future shitbags?

perhaps those external stimuli are always present in some form, even if they are extremely minimal, indirect, or invisible to us at first glance.

I still think the connection between external stimuli and consciousness are a lot more glaring than what you realize. After all it is how we medically determine consciousness in humans. Our ability to process and respond to external stimuli is a direct reflection of our somatic and autonomic physiology.

We could even say that it may be impossible to isolate the mind completely from all stimulation in the first place.

You can, it’s called anesthesia.

In that sense, the claim becomes less about the absence of stimulation and more about how little stimulation is actually enough to sustain consciousness or mental activity.

Its interdependent on your period of development. In gestation unborn infants produce more grey matter than what is really needed to sustain life and can get by with internal stimuli and the external stimuli provided by the womb. However as we develop we become more dependent on higher and higher levels of interaction with our environment to develop our mental capacity.

If a person were to be put under anesthesia since early development or e acquired a tbi that made them unresponsive at an early age, they would all likely mentally deteriorate to a persistent vegetative state.

One is normal brain development, and the other is consciousness itself. It’s true that a human being needs certain external stimuli for the brain to develop in a healthy way and for mental experience to be normal and stable. But that does not mean that, without those stimuli, consciousness does not exist.

Human beings require external stimuli for any higher brain development to happen, not just healthy brain development.

But that does not mean that, without those stimuli, consciousness does not exist.

Yes… It does. Any example you would like to share of a conscious individual who lacks access to any and all external stimuli?

A person can still be conscious and yet suffer severe cognitive, emotional, or behavioral changes because of sensory deprivation or an extremely limited environment.

Yes, but they did not develop in that extreme deprivation. And even if they did develop in a way that was restricted, they did not lack external stimuli completely.

Your body literally need to be experience external stimuli to develop the capacity for consciousness.

There’s fundamentally not much difference between our brain and a fly’s, at the cellular level.

There’s fundamentally not much difference between the silicon in an n64 and the silicone in a quantum computer… That doesn’t mean you can make a quantum computer out of an old n64.

However, consciousness is likely just an internal illusion.

Internal… as it can only be confirmed by the individual self? Consciousness is an ontological term to define the human condition. There is purposely no exact definition, as an exact definition of consciousness would only be utilized to strip rights away from those who do not fall under the exacting definition. There are however generally agreed upon criteria and criteria that have been hotly debated for hundreds of years.

There’s no obvious reason we can’t scale up from a fly to a human brain, other than difficulty.

To make this claim requires someone to have a limited understanding of what consciousness is, and how it develops. It completely ignores the mind body problem, and treats the human brain as something that can operate outside the body as if it were some sort of computer.

Consciousness in humans develops and sustains itself as we physically interact with the world around us. This is true in both development in childhood and as we continue to age. As we physically interact with phenomena around us we mentally develop, as our senses start to fail us in age we mentally decline. Even if I were to just cut off your arm, there would be a plethora of changes to the physiology of your brain that would alter the way it functions and the way it is shaped.

A person born stripped of all physical phenomena would never develop a conscious to begin with, and a if it were stripped away after consciousness had developed they would lose it. Hell, even sticking someone in an area with restricted physical phenomena for a short period of time can drive them insane.

Consciousness is not purely a metaphysical phenomenon. And from what we currently understand of it can not be recreated purely in a virtual format.

an idiot intern has to read it and follow the instructions exactly on what to do?

Kinda the main factor you keep in mind when writing medical notes. The notes are to inform anyone reading them what your subjective and objective observations were and, your actions, and plan of care for the patient.