>> At 21:09 23/09/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> >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
>> >
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>We are a practice of 8,00 on 2 roughly equal sites operating meditel
>system 5 in unix with frontdesk, with a kilostream link.The system
>works well at the main site with the cpu except for some continuing
>problems with din files corrupting unix. The remote site is far
>slower, this is on the whole acceptable in system 5 but can be
>troublesome in frontdesk. we consider ourselves one practice over two
>sites with patients able to be seen at either site, which increases
>our dependancy on the computer record and is and added incentive to
>move towards becoming paperless. We are very keen to make use of path
>links and develop a network as early as possible. Meditel have
>indicated that this should be possible with our present configuration
>in system 5, but practicability and speed will become apparent in due
>course no doubt. System 6000 is obviously still out of sight.I wonder
>if the problems faced in collecting data from surgeries across a pcg
>will have any useful fallout for split site practices.
>Andrew Hill GP Southampton
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