??
Our business info *is* on our business server. But this server also has the
clinical data on it (is this what you were getting at, Adrian?)
We own our server (we chose to buy it rather than have a free one given to us,
so we retain control of it).
However, for many practices with only remote server access to their clinical
data, where do they store their business data? On the PCT/LSP owned central
server? Or on their own workstations (when there will need to be some backup
facilities in place)?
It is clear that most active posters to gp-uk have their own clinical server
rather than a hosted server solution for their clinical data. This is also the
case for the Vision user group**, certainly most of those at the leading edge of
using that system. I suspect that the same may be the case for the other UGs.
We are developing a 2 tier GP IT system, it seems, where most of those at the
bleeding edge of GP IT are retaining clinical servers in house. The level of IT
expertise in those with hosted systems is *generally* lower (with a number of
notable exceptions).
Laurie Miles
** Those clinicians who have volunteered for the NVUG National Panel are almost
all from practices with a non-hosted clinical system.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr Adrian Midgley (In
> the office)
> Sent: 19 February 2007 9:55 am
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [GP-UK] lesson of the week non clinical backups
>
> Dr Laurie Miles wrote:
> > Most important lesson to learn from this is: don't save anything even
> remotely
> > important to a workstation - save everything to the network, which will
> > (hopefully) be backed up each night.
>
> Also worth considering whether business info should be on a business
> server, owned by the business and backed up by the business. They are
> not expensive, even if you sensibly choose to put a pair of hard drives
> in rather than just one.
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