> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ewan Davis
> Sent: 24 November 1998 11:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: Cost of linking practices to the Internet
>
> There is a lot of duff information in this thread.
>
big snip
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> Of course GPnet is coming soon and this will provide all of the above and more free. It won’t need NT and MS Exchange either.
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So why do NHSTB insist that this is the only way that the CHAPS security will work to allow connection to NHSnet? What is it about
the connection that requires exchange server? Will a 56k link running at 44000 at best some of the time handle four or five links to
the local hospitla to look at bed states, path results, OPD availability, etc.? A clean 56k link is very different form the average
PSTN dial up. Anyone consistently get 50k or better?
We have been told there are cheap simple ways of doing things in the past and that they might work. The suppliers (your goodself
obviously accepted) seem to go for the complex bells and whistles approach to allow future expansion etc.
If we are going to go for the distributed electttronic patient record then we will need a highly flexible, high volume connection, I
can't see the point of bolting on a system that will work for the moment to our current systems when we have the opportunity to get
it right first time.
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton,
SHEFFIELD
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
Member of the BHIA
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