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Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed on the go - take the EMR with you


From: James Busser
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed on the go - take the EMR with you
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:24:00 -0700

On 12-Sep-08, at 4:02 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

Disclaimer: Do not use it for anything else but testing when installing on your local PC. Once you decide to use GNUmed on your PC we recommend a full
installation as described over at wiki.gnumed.de

I am just wondering about the disclaimer. The hospital in which I work is huge and sometimes I am even having to be at the other hospital in town. This means I might be located 45 minutes from my office and unless I bring my laptop everywhere (and, even then, there are some restrictions in the hospitals when policy limits my laptop usage) that I need some way to run GNUmed off desktop machines.

It appears that my options would be:

1) use LiveCD... but this is likely to be (a) very slow and (b) I am not sure how I could modify the config file inside the iso (if it would even be possible) in order to be able to connect to anything other than the pre-installed on-CD database or the public database

2) boot from portable device or, if a boot from the hospital pc would remain faster, *run from* the portable device.

I continue to need some way to connect from a machine on which I have no "install" privileges. So I am only wondering at the disclaimer to run from portable device only for testing. If it is a matter of speed... well... I understand the portable devices to all be gradually speeding up. I am willing to tolerate slowness for short periods... we have an expression in English (maybe other languages) "beggars can't be choosers".

Is it a question of maintainability? In other words the person who depends on the portable device will be stuck unable to use properly updatable clients?




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