Andrew,
The practice I am visiting has about 10,000 patients equally split.
They are currently using two 9,600 lines to communicate between
surgeries (terminals run _very_ slowly). They comment that a kilostream
costing about £6000 is not a runner. How would you respond to that if
you wanted to convince them that a kilostream was a sensible option?
They are using System 5 as well, so if you have any other tips for them
(they are slow uptakers of IT) I would be grateful.
Regards,
Paul
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>>> 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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Paul J Scott, Primary Care Physician, United Kingdom.
Fax 44 (0)1935 410188
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