Record Remote computer

All transducers were monitored using a remote computer data acquisition system. There were separate video recordings (two to five cameras) made (Nind, 1996) as well as infrared thermal image records of the fireballs formed (Hawksworth and Brearley, 1996). British Gas additionally made wide- and narrow-angle thermal radiation measurements (Gosse and Pritchard, 1996). 

It is always risky to keep only one copy of a document. If computer generated, you can easily make another copy provided you always save it, but if manually generated, its loss can be very costly. It is therefore prudent to produce additional copies of critical records as an insurance against inadvertent loss. These insurance copies should be stored in a remote location under the control of the same authority that controls the original records. Insurance copies of computer disks should also be kept in case of problems with the hard disk or file server, if you use one. 

Portable weather stations are useful to have available at the field laboratory for acquiring weather data during the course of the worker exposure/re-entry study. There are a variety of portable weather stations available from a variety of suppliers. Weather data to be collected are rainfall, wind direction, wind speed, air temperature, and relative humidity. These electronic weather stations will record the necessary weather parameters on a routine basis. The data are stored and can be transferred to a laptop computer or disk as desired by the Field Scientist. Such portable electronic weather stations are useful during the course of the dislodgeable residue portion of a worker re-entry study when dislodgeable residue samples are taken from remote test sites over the course of a 30-day period. 

Remote data entry is the process by which data are entered into a laptop or personal computer rather than onto a paper CRE Normally, this process will take place at the investigator site. The computer screen provides a so-called electronic CRF (eCRF), which, like the paper CRF, will require a series of answers or parameters to be recorded. The system provides screen prompts and checks. These remind the investigator to complete responses and can immediately draw attention to any inconsistency between responses. Not all the data can be recorded directly into the eCRF and, as with the paper CRF, key elements will still need to be recorded in the study subject records. 

In order to perform the analysis correctly, the analyst needs to be given the appropriate information about the analysis required. In large organisations the person who deals with the client may be remote from the analyst who carries out the work. The test sheet is where the client s request has been recorded with sufficient detail for the analyst to perform the analysis. With the advent of laboratory information management systems (LIMS), this may be done using a computer rather than a paper based system. 

The appropriate backup media can vary examples include diskettes, cartridge tapes, removable disk cartridges, or remote-networked host computers. The retention responsibilities for backups are the same as for other documentation and records. Stored backups should be checked for accessibility, durability, and accuracy at a frequency appropriate for the storage medium. Beware of wear-out of media when purposely overwritten for reuse. Different media have different life spans. CD-ROMs, for instance, typically have a 10-year lifetime but tapes have a much shorter lifetime. 

The matter is one of how these issues are to be handled or monitored in the computer-dominated medicine of the test of the twenty-first century. Paper records locked in a drawer are not safe, and do not ensure that the patient s wishes are respected in remote locations where there is medical need for the patient, that his or her wishes are respected while unconscious, and that the use of his or her data is controlled in medical research in accordance with the patient s wishes. The question is not one of problems created by computers, but how, with a potential Tsunami of data of so many patients being processed, can computers be used to protect the patient and the public ... 

For our health-guardians to know us better and in a timely manner, remote monitoring of patients is usually considered part of telemedicine. If recorded, or at least temporarilly noted and sifted by computer, it is another entry in the vast heterogeneous sources to be analyzed, and possibly a continuous realtime stream of data. 

Records may be retained by computer storage, but the procedures and checks in Section 9 should be followed. Such records should be progressively backed up (e.g. daily) and the backup kept at a location remote from the active file. 

The Control Department of Natural Gas Pipeline Company has developed an electronic flow measurement system that accurately computes gas flow data and yet allows flexibility in the overall performance and operation of the system. Features can be added to the system simply by bumincr a new set of UVPROM in exchange for the old ones (hardware changes may be necessary). The advantages of an electronic flow measurement system experienced thus far are Information is available immediately—locally and remotely —a much more accurate flow measurement compared to chart recorders, and the flexibility of addina and/or modifyincr software programs quickly. 

Two other computer facilities are a data collection system which monitors remotely located data acquisition and experiment-control computers via asynchronous serial lines and the two Evans and Sutherland LDS-1 interactive graphics terminals. A PDP 10 included in the network configuration as an alternate file transport concentrator and auxiliary network development machine also performs the role of worker computer with the Evans and Sutherland display equipment. Other subnetworks have been designed for inclusion in the Octopus network to direct the on-line operation of LLL high-speed printer and microfilm recorder output facilities, to administer a second, expanded television monitor system providing 256 channels of video input for distribution to 512 additional monitors, and to control a CDC on-line tape library of 8.7 x 10 bits scheduled for delivery in 1975. The Computer Hardcopy Output Recording System (CHORS) concentrators are two Modcomp II computers, and TMDS-II will utilize two PDP 11/45s both subnetworks are to become operational during the... 

Fisons original biological and chemical records system was set up in 1973 on a remote ICL computer and was subject to the hardware and software limitations of the time. Results were recorded by biologists on datasheets and largely in free format. Some codes were added by information scientists before the data was sent for input. Chemical structures were stored as Wiswesser Line Notations (WLN). 

Combustible gas detectors are generally installed in buildings and in the intakes to the HVAC air ducts. They can also be installed in outdoor areas that could have hydrocarbon vapor present, particularly in remote areas such as truck unloading stations that may not have personnel present all the time. They should always be installed in living quarters, high-value computer facilities, and offices that store vital records. 

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