Happy Friday https://www.askascent.com/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1252166 Sat, 6 Jun 2026 12:19:21 GMT Fri, 1 Apr 2016 18:51:02 GMT Copyright © 2016 ASCENT | Administrator Support Community for ENT Happy Friday https://www.askascent.com/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1252166 https://www.askascent.com/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1252166 Firewalls For Dummies
From Firewalls For Dummies, 2nd Edition by Brian Komar, Ronald Beekelaar, Joern Wettern

An application which constructs a barrier between your computer and the internet is a:

A:  Router

B:  Firewall

C:  VPN

D:  CPU

 

Answer is B and thanks to Firewalls for dummies they give the following definition

A firewall constructs a barrier between your computer and the Internet in an effort to safeguard your computer and the information in it. When you start looking to purchase the software or hardware that can guard your system, a checklist of questions to find answers to is a useful tool. Because a firewall protects from potential dangers on the Internet, you need to know a little about the ports, protocols, and IP addresses used to connect to it. And, you need to stay on top of current threats, which a variety of Web sites can help with.

There are different types of firewalls, depending upon the system you have and what type of barrier you need to set up.  Internet surfing gives a lot of good info but is also a good way to latch onto a virus lurking out there.  A firewall helps keep  you protected.

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IT can be a scary subject but once again you will realize you know a lot more about it than you think you do for the purpose of this assessment. We do this daily---someone gets an error message of "no signal" which of course means they have a loose connection 99 percent of the time and need to crawl under the desk to check all the wires----nothing like doing that when dressed for work, huh?. Or the message "memory low"---how many apps do they have open at the same time and still trying to run a report? Ever have to "clear the cache" for someone because they are running low on space and don't realize a computer holds temporary files until they are cleared?

did you know that Html is the "how it is going to look" on a page and not the "script" it is written in?

we use all this all the time without thinking about it. IP addresses, Ram, interfaces, firewalls, routers, "killng a user" (not literally but at times the thought does pop into our head)
since the implementation of HIPAA and MU I have learned more about computers and how they work than I thought I every would and that is just to make it through the day.

We have new things daily such as "intranet" which we can now put on our websites for staff use which is a system within a system. You have to love it when it works.

I know it is repetitive but just look at your current system and start naming the different components to give yourself a review---Servers--workstations--printers--routers--how networked--where do you find the IP address of your computer---go to the C drive of your computer and look at the files it contains. Know what an external drive is? every time you load a disk into your computer it is external. Memory sticks, thumb drives are one and the same, just called differently by different users. USB ports---do you know where they are and how many you have on your cpu? Got any serial ports? Use an interface for your management system to work with your EHR if you utilize different applications? How about bytes?
LAN lines, fiber, T1's. It is all a big circle to keep us connected and working.

Malware, worms, viruses, phishing (sp?) what do you use to stop all these? Do you send info encrypted or know how to set it up?

We deal with HITECH for HIPAA and this is the security we set up to protect all the PHI---you know all these definitions because you work with it all the time. IT changes daily and at times seems overwhelming but this assessment won't ask you to write a program in a specific computer language---just review your resource manual--take a look at areas you might need a refresher on and you will do fine]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2016 19:38:06 GMT https://www.askascent.com/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1252179 https://www.askascent.com/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1252179 Fri, 1 Apr 2016 19:40:29 GMT Ethernet https://www.askascent.com/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1252183 https://www.askascent.com/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1252183 Next time your're crawling around under your desk or a staffer's desk trying to figure out which little cord isn't attached---just remember what an ethernet cord is---it's that cord that looks like a telephone line plug in (which it is in a sense)--it is usually the first culprit to come loose.  Which of course stops your computer from working because it can't connect to the Network!

 

so a sample question could be:

What product is used to connect your CPU to the network?  ethernet cord     that is a very basic example of a question on the assessment and probably not a really good one but its friday and we are all thinking about the weekend which is almost here.

 

Remote connections--anyone using laptops or tablets knows what a remote connection is in the office. Or those who have satellite offices all use a remote connection.

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