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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Paul J Scott
> Sent: 23 September 1998 21:10
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Branch Surgeries and IT-what do you do?
>
>
> I am facilitating a discussion on IT and branch surgeries next week at a
> Meditel site. I don't have a branch surgery myself so I would be very
> interested to hear of surgeries that do, and for their views on how IT
> helps them clinically and administratively. What criteria are important
> in deciding what connections to use, what network protocols can you use.
> The two surgeries are not line of sight so semaphore and microwave are
> not viable options!
>
> Thanks for your ideas.
> --
> Paul J Scott, Primary Care Physician, United Kingdom.
> Fax 44 (0)1935 410188
We used to use floppy disk swapping to exchenage the data. Data merging by PSTN dial up at night works reasonably well for us, some
of the time. We are moving to ISDN at both sites to make the process more reliable. Also allows browsing from desktops eventually
:-)We are a suffere of the Microdoc system however. :-(
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton,
SHEFFIELD
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
Member of the BHIA
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