A firewall of sorts may be necessary depending on what else you do on the network. No reason in my book why you can't connect to
NHSnet and the clinical system.
Trefor
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Stuart Skeates
> Sent: 23 November 1998 19:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: Cost of linking practices to the Internet
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>
> On Monday, November 23, 1998 8:26 AM, Trefor Roscoe
> [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
> > Why on earth have it as a stand alone? Unless the connection is networked
> then the value will be minimal.
> >
> > The cost of networking to all terminals in a practice is in my estimation
> about £750-1500 per GP depending on how many terminals
> > need replacing. Details if required
> >
> I would be interested to know how practices are getting around the problem
> of not connecting to the internet and the clinical system at the same time.
> By your first paragraph you seem to imply that there may be a connection to
> both. Are you using the NHS Net or a firewall or do you physically plug
> into either the clinical net or the internet, swapping between the two?
> At the moment we have employed the latter using VPOP3 as the intermediary,
> but it is tedious.When and if the NHS net is working at the right price it
> would be our preferred option. What other solutions are there?
>
> Stuart
>
> Dr Stuart Skeates
> Romsey
> Hants
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