DIGI SOCIETY
MY DIGITAL EXPERIENCE
I was born in the early 1970s. In my childhood home, when I lived there, there were never any digital devices other than television and radio. I myself played the Green House electronics game in my childhood. I remember the first times in school, when we had computer technology, it seemed that from where I dare to even press that explode the whole device. This is how afterwards the advances make you smile.
That’s how the world has changed. Now my father, who is well over 70 years old, uses a smartphone and a laptop. I myself have used information technology very actively since the 1990s. First during studies and now in working life on a daily basis. Digitization also exists in the health sector these days, whether you want it to be so or not. The corona pandemic has turned digitization into an even more significant way of working in my work. Since the pandemic, we had to adapt our operations significantly. Remote reception work became a tool to continue operations and occupational health services. Although the pandemic has already eased a little, remote reception operations and various digital clinics have remained part of the work. It is the present day. Of course, use must be taken into account as much as possible: not all customers have e-mails or remote connection possibilities, and not all health matters can be taken care of at a remote reception.
MY THOUGHTS ON DIGITIZATION
As I wrote above, digitization is today and I use it every day at work. The Internet and digitization, which are used worldwide, have made life easier for all of us and made life easier more international. As a private person, I am quite wary of using various digital services, especially if you have to use your own name and identity there. Digitization has also made it possible for criminals to have a huge playground. As a health professional, I can’t help but mention the Vastaamo commotion that rocked the whole of Finland, where people’s IDs and health information were hacked. Particularly worrying. What went wrong?
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), i.e. the law regulating the processing of personal data, has been in place in all EU countries since spring 2018. Even though I work in a critical field, I had never heard of this before. This is a really important law and gives us all security in the digital jungle.
SELF-REFLECTION
However, I have avoided this course until the last one, knowing that the course has to be taken care of. In this course, I am going for two in the discomfort zone: English, which I have last studied in high school in the early 1990s. The second is this digitalization, where I really don’t feel that I am at my strongest. The course gives good instructions and you can proceed with them. So here we have started and this is not as terrible as the preconceived notions 😊. Downwind! I know this is useful for me. You have to dare to take steps towards modern times.
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