{"id":1095,"date":"2014-05-27T06:58:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T06:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2014-05-31T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T17:28:00","slug":"wifi-in-the-world-of-electronic-medical-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wifi-in-the-world-of-electronic-medical-record\/","title":{"rendered":"WiFi in the world of Electronic Medical Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeons and other doctors need to know know a bit about computers. \u00a0That stems from the <a title=\"PrognoCis EMR - Electronic Medical Record\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizmaticsinc.com\/\">electronic medical record<\/a> growth surrounding us. \u00a0I&#8217;d say that it&#8217;s an important part of a surgeon&#8217;s knowledge base to know a bit about wireless internet connections, and internet connections speeds, and internet connection security &#8211; starting with wireless connection security.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I just wanted to explore my own WiFi connection on my laptop. \u00a0I was comforted to know that my home WiFi connection is WPA-2 encrypted. \u00a0I was able to find out how that was done. \u00a0But I also saw that most of the hotels that I have traveled to were not protected in this fashion. \u00a0To me this means that I should be cautious surfing at hotels.<\/p>\n<p>I was also curious about my speed. \u00a0I looked up my WiFi card in my computer by looking up the details of my wireless network connection. \u00a0It seems that I have a Broadcom 4313 card which is able to acces 802.11 b\/g\/n which can run at a speed of 72 Mbps. \u00a0These were data spit out on my Windows 7 equipped laptop. \u00a0At this time, I still haven&#8217;t figured out which Hz the transmission\u00a0is traveling. \u00a0I&#8217;ve heard that it could be 2mHz or 5mHz &#8211; I think.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\">speed test<\/a> on my connection with Charter. \u00a0With my WiFi equipped Laptop, I got speeds of 19.34 Mbps download and 3.32 Mbps upload. (ping was 24 ms).<\/p>\n<p>Testing several more times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Down\/Up<\/li>\n<li>18.76\/3.31<\/li>\n<li>19.01\/3.31<\/li>\n<li>19.51\/3.28<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll hopefully get a chance to test out these other numbers in other situations.<\/p>\n<p>I have another computer which I just purchased a brand new wifi adapter to plug into the usb port. \u00a0It is the <a title=\"usb wifi adapter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linksys.com\/en-apac\/products\/adapters\/AE3000\">Linksys N900 AE3000<\/a>. \u00a0I think Linksys and Cisco are somehow together. \u00a0It has\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n,\u00a0Simultaneous 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, runs on USB2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are the testing on that computer. \u00a0I know the times are related to my signal strength and router. \u00a0But regardless here are some speedtest.net results. \u00a0Ping 32ms, Download speed 29.41 Mbps, Upload speed of 2.23 Mbps. \u00a0But the speed is somewhat erratic on this machine because it is located next to a chimney probably.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>31ms\/21.59 down\/2.79 up<\/li>\n<li>29ms\/11.92 down\/2.4 up<\/li>\n<li>32ms\/38.83 down\/3.09 up<\/li>\n<li>33ms\/2.46 down\/2.48 up<\/li>\n<li>34ms\/23.41 down\/2.68 up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeons and other doctors need to know know a bit about computers. \u00a0That stems from the electronic medical record growth surrounding us. \u00a0I&#8217;d say that it&#8217;s an important part of a surgeon&#8217;s knowledge base to know a bit about wireless internet connections, and internet connections speeds, and internet connection security &#8211; starting with wireless connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[346,347,345],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emr","tag-download-speed","tag-security","tag-wifi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}