Experience from a view of a radiographer and a former chef/waiter, digitalization is something to be waited to happen and utilize.
I can see that restaurants can utilize big data gathered from diners reviews etc. so that for example a restaurant could get information on which style of food is eaten in a different areas. If a new restaurant is to be opened and the restaurant entrepreneur considers if the consept and food which is going to be served is valid on that area where a restaurant is planned going to be popular. Or other perspective, if there is no other restaurants from example italian cuisine, maybe there is a need for one in a area, in which big data shows there is none? Does big data give this for future restaurant entrepreneurs is something i’m looking forward as a former chef/waiter.
That said there is a disagreement when thinking this from the perspective of the data protection reform and general data protection regulation (GDPR), which gives a person option to choose whether to give that kind of information to be gathered. For the purpose to gather big data for the use a restaurant entrepreneur who in considering opening a new restaurant in a designated area.
Thought from a field of healthcare, radiology, where i nowadays work. Radiology is heavily digitalized working environment in where all the devices used for X-ray imaging, magnetic resonance imaging or ultrasound imaging, are connected to a platform which can be accessed from the internet. Cyber security is playing a big role in the field of radiology. Fold your tin hats now. Think about a scenario in where a person in high position of some administration got imaged in radiology, lets say computed tomography (CT). From this imaging, if cyber security fails and internet hackers got eye on this invudual. Hackers could maybe get to hold on of this persons CT images and modify it before it gets to get evaluated to radiologist or oncologist, so that the otherwise normal CT images shows a carsinoma in terminal state. Something to think about.
There is also positive applications from the point of view of radiology and work of an radiographer. I can see that in not so far future, there may be more remote work available. Digitalization and innovations rising from it, can maybe make it possible using virtual reality technology combined with robotics or just remote controlled imaging devices. So for example a person with disability, not able to stand/walk, could operate CT imaging device remotely and that persons counterpartner is a radiographer on site to position a patient on the imaging table. There is a lot of questions and pitfalls to this idea. This is the way i think radiologic imaging is going.
I say that my way of surfing the internet or utilizing different kind of internet accessible apps etc. hasn’t changed or effected from the data protection reform or general data protection regulation. Although it’s possibly much more safer with these data protection reforms. Working in a hospital makes me think that why these data reforms were not made earlier, considering that in a hospital there is a great number of variety of individuals from different backgrounds. With this I try to point out the fact that hospitals were earlier, when digital world with computers came, like an open book where you could go quite easily compared to these days. I don’t mean walking in a hospital but the fact that paper documents and early computers were easily accessible to a person who knew where to look. Compared to digitalized world where this data is not so easily accessible, but if you know where to look and ger acces, then it’s another story, because of the big data.
I learned that cyber security plays much bigger role that i have known and realized. It’s time for me to gather more information on this subject and maybe change my way how I surf in cyber space. Andy Yens TED talk of email’s privacy was very interesting. I had a thought that email’s aren’t as secured that we think, but didn’t think they would be that easily accessed. Of course in Yens shown case it was build in an environment where he knew all the possibilities of security – I suppose he did. I use email’s at work frequently and this made me think that how can we be sure that these email’s I send won’t get in the hands of 3rd persons. Is there always a back port to email’s and data we produce everyday? I have to put my own tinfoil hat back to my head now with this said. I haven’t thought this before this deep before this course.
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