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-Frames should have one, Vision Checkout should have two.
My name is Stephen Burke of Seattle IT.
The clinic directors and everything,
they know exactly how critical IT is to the clinic.
-Seattle/King County Clinic could honestly not operate
without Seattle IT.
We have so many different systems across the entire clinic
that deal from everything from patient registration and records
to X-ray and ultrasound and EKG
all needing to talk to each other.
And none of these systems have ever worked together before.
We bring them on site in one day,
and with a matter of three days,
we have to be a completely functional health care facility.
-That's also used internally in the clinic
to track patient flow,
keep track of number of patients per day
and make sure people get through the steps
in the clinic too correctly.
-We have these roving devices
that have medically certified interpretation.
That's also part of our IT setup because it's got to connect
and we can call up hundreds of different languages
if we need them in the clinic.
-The mission of this event has been one
that shows the power of teamwork.
We want to show that we're invested in the community,
that this community is important to us,
and that we not only serve them through the services
that we provide, but also that we participate.
And you see your place of work in a different light.
-I've been doing this for 30 plus years.
I tell people this is the most important part of my job,
the clinic, and it's the most enjoyable, too.
So I, you know, I normally do desktop support,
but the clinic, that's the part that I enjoy
and feel most satisfied with.
-If I do my job correctly,
they don't think about IT at all.
It's very fulfilling.
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