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Working with the tech

One of the great privileges of building this new practice is the ability to design the systems that will help me live my life in a better way. I’ve spoke about this many times before, not least in the right to work scheme that I’m creating for myself.

The tech is the next thing.

I’m not taking a laptop to work, nor carrying it round, from one place to the next.

It will live at my house and it will not move and the desktop in my work, will be the same as the desktop on my laptop, because the technology exists to do that, and I intend to use it.

I found myself in a tech shop yesterday, looking at Apple Macs, which is what I intend to have on my desk in the office at the new TCC. I plan to use the tech properly and well, not to take up my time, but to free it up.

The digital dictation that I have mastered over the past decade, to improve and to make things better for me and my patients and my team.

I will stop duplicating tasks, the way I have before and trust people to get the job done, the way I trust myself.

The tech is the first part of that.

A gigabyte internet line into the practice, will mean that I have all the internet capacity I could ever need.

A well selected desktop computer at this stage will last me until the next 7 or 8 years, up until the age of about 55.

An app on my phone, lets me phone patients directly from my own phone, but to show the practice number when I call.

Go on other days when multiple patients get to phone me when I’m on holiday, because the tech is in place to stop that being required.

The other possible backup will be cloud-based, where that’s not possible, the back up will be on the servers at the practice.

When I work from home it will be closed away with my dog and my thoughts and myself and when I need time to work deeply like that, that’s probably where I will be, when I come to work, it will be to collaborate to work together and to create things and to do great things and I will have the tech to do that, the tech will help me, not hinder me and it will be my tool, not my master.