Card panic!

As has been announced last summer (see e.g. this blog entry) the hospital is upgrading its entrance systems. The change was originally scheduled to take place last autumn, but delays have postponed the new card reader installation at R43 until this spring.

Today, completely out of the blue without any advance notice, the new card readers were installed. This means that your cards do not open the R43 corridor or the SMILE door anymore. I have been expecting the arrival of instructions from the security department on how to deal with upgrading your cards, but have not received any. I am struggling to find out how to do it, but important people at the security department are ill and I have not been able to solve this yet.

How difficult it will be to upgrade your card depends on where you work and other things.

* If you are hired by Karolinska Hospital and have a Swedish personal number you probably already have a SIS-marked card. All you need to do then is to contact me and give me some details such as your personal number. I can then send an email and your card will probably work almost at once.

* If you are hired by the hospital but do not have a Swedish personal number you will have to get an OSIS card. I'm not sure how to order those yet.

* If you are not hired by the hospital but need access to PACS, TakeCare or other hospital computer systems you also need to have an OSIS card.

* I think this goes for most of you: if you are not hired by Karolinska Hospital and do not need to have access to PACS etc, but just want to be able to open the doors, you will need to have a K-badge. I also do not know how to order K-badges, but I'm sure that you will need to have your photo taken by the hospital photographer in the process.

I will hopefully find out how these things work within a few days. Meanwhile, I want to start collecting information from those of you who wish to renew your access to the SMILE doors.

All those who want to be able to open both SMILE doors, please contact me ASAP. I will then ask you for the details I think are needed from you in order to get you renewed access.

To try and minimize the bother for the physicists with offices close to the entrance door, please call me on 08-585 848 07 when you are standing outside the R43 corridor door and I will come and open it for you.