Apparently it was in rows, not columns. The problem was they saved it as .xls and not .xlsx
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Originally posted by ladymuck View PostThe cool kids who don't want the spreadsheet to crash use INDEX and MATCH
the ones with a brain use SQL to store data and if at gunpoint excel as the viewing tool.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Wasn't it simply a case of doing an automated export to xls to help ordinary folk "see" the data, email to all concerned parties etc.? If that's the case I can already see a tester somewhere thinking "fecking hell we tested with a 1000 entries and pushed this ticket into Resolved".Comment
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What kind of idiots are they using that are using spreadsheets in this digital age. They must be 20 years behind.Vote Corbyn ! Save this country !Comment
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Originally posted by dsc View PostWasn't it simply a case of doing an automated export to xls to help ordinary folk "see" the data, email to all concerned parties etc.? If that's the case I can already see a tester somewhere thinking "fecking hell we tested with a 1000 entries and pushed this ticket into Resolved".Comment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostMy guess is that they are using labs in addition to those they normally use for routine hospital bloods - commercial labs, research labs, veterinary labs. These labs probably don't support normal healthcare HL7 messaging of lab results, so they were in a hurry to implement and decided to export into Excel, possibly manipulate data in Excel to normalise data (e.g. add leading zeroes to phone numbers etc. so patients get SMS) and then import into their public health system. This probably made sense in the early days when everything had to be done quickly. But they had the summer, when things were quieter and the surge expected to migrate to a more robust system / process."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by fullyautomatix View PostWhat kind of idiots are they using that are using spreadsheets in this digital age. They must be 20 years behind.
So let me get this straight, they are sharing confidential medical information with contact details in spreadsheets. Can we lock Matt Handcock up with the BLM & EDL protesters on GDPR breaches?Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by fullyautomatix View PostWhat kind of idiots are they using that are using spreadsheets in this digital age. They must be 20 years behind.
HMS Queen Elizabeth is 'running outdated Windows XP', raising cyber attack fearsComment
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Originally posted by vetran View PostSo let me get this straight, they are sharing confidential medical information with contact details in spreadsheets. Can we lock Matt Handcock up with the BLM & EDL protesters on GDPR breaches?Comment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostUsing Excel is not in itself a GDPR breach. It should however be subject to a DPIA and the risks managed (and they should have moved away from this over the summer when they had breathing space).Comment
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