With Tech growing so fast the humans can barely keep up. Is there a so called "paper trail" for things? Like in medical stuff. Or other things so you can track it back to a single person.
or does it go back to a simple username and password that anyone can use?
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Being able to log/audit/restore and rollback is a requirement for any system that hopes to gain ISO27001 certification and all the systems I work with in my field have that ability.
The paper trail on our safeguarding systems are significantly more robust than the old paper based alternatives.
Yes of course. The paper trail is just electronic logs.
Logs are time stamped and identify what user input data.
A simple example of an electronic log is when you send an email to someone.
In the US the broad term for the software that doctors offices use are EHR. Electronic Health Record. It will log all referral and treatment plans, has an area for doctor notes most have a defined Q&A that the provider does with the patient.
can you give an example ?
Ok like doing Q and A in the medical field you would get handed a file on the nurses visit to a home or something. Then being the Q and A nurse you have to go over said nurse in question. So that file is a direct link to the nurse the Q and A nurse is investigating. But with tech you don't know who is signing in or whatever. If a nurse gave another nurse her login because a nurse forgot theirs, what happens to the nurse who used that persons log in? Can it be traced back to a single person. Or is it just up in the air?
There’s a whole world of accountability a nurse does not want to get dragged into by sharing their login.
When I was at the hospital last east nurse would swipe their ID tag and type in their password to log into the computer. When they were done they’d swipe it again to log out.
Nobody wants to get held accountable for someone else killing someone.