Hi all,
Care 2x it's a web-technology based application.. dosen't matter if the final user it's a windows or *nix people, they just have to know how to handle an Internet navigator like IE or Netscape..
I like the idea of optical fiber, I studied CCNA of CISCO and they recommend your approach, Emir.
Think twice about using MySQL. If you have UPSs may be better but I had some problems with 'clients which did not properly closed the table' etc.. indeed, after electricity problems.. they have the 'myisamchk' utility which seems to be very good.. but I would take a look at postgres too.. maybe you should also see the mysql cluster solution (I only know they have it, no idea how it is, maybe someone here have tried it out)
Lastly, think about a formal project planning, you will have a lot of work to do (I already see your nice charts :) and you may get lost if you don't get organized, in a more professional meaning of the word. See some documentation about PMP (Project management professional) or PMBOK, or something the like.. (not very much though, just to help yourself, not to complicate the process too much)
Take into account also the possibility to use a groupware tool like PHProjekt for the tasks assigned to the project team. The fact that you know well your mates and they are good persons does not have to do anything with organizing and security (I have seen a message about put it in a separate room, that is not a bad idea, in some parts in Europe you are *required* to do that, because the medical data is a very *sensitive* type of data... Imagagine that a very important public person comes to your hospital.. bad people may try to steal information and sell it to the media.. These are a 'must' because situations must appear that you have not thought of before.. just IMHO.
Regards,
-- Daniel Ignat PHP Programmer and SysAdmin
plasticdoc wrote:
I will have max 50 wrksts per floor and I will look more deply into ltsp although they are all windows people.
Windows, hum... thats your time. But if you need reliability, security and easy centralized administration and solid HA Cluster architecture, I am afraid that you will need to look into a flavor of BSD or Linux.
From the strict point of view of the clinical records and patient data confidentiality, just think of the security and peace that a Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) terminal will give you:
a) each time you turn it on you will always have the latest software, the latest security patches, the most accurate user data. And all that by just updating a single terminal image in the central server.
b) while using it the user will not have mass data devices to input from , or to store to. All floppy, HD, CD units will be absent. All I/O ports besides keyboard, mouse (or other mouse-like pointer devices) and ethernet card will be disabled... so, no trouble with non authorized USB, RS232 or Parallel devices.
c) once you turn it off, all the sensitive clinical information will be dead, so you need not to worry with hospital liability if some non authorized person grabs a hand on that terminal.
See what is being done here in Portugal: http://danuninho.dhis.org/~halix/
With some luck, Bruno Tavares will give you the project drafts and implementation scripts.
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