Marcos: DP is perfect for a low cost medical operation, and the database is powerful. I've been using this for my medical practice for 18 years now, I have about 29,000 patients on it now, 40,000 patients and all associated demographics, diagnoses, medicines, letters, phone calls, prescriptions, immunizations, labs, xrays, off work orders, and memos in a relational database. It even tracks OB care.
I would be happy to donate my medical program (Echart)to your clinic...works best on Shell 3.1 as the macros give it exceptional power to print up prescriptions, reports, instructions with a few key strokes. Progress notes can be free text or macro phrase written, or template produced using the macros. Wordperfect, Editor, Calendar, calculator, are other programs that run from the Shell Menu while using dataperfect to complement it's functionality. I had this running on Netware ethernet network which is DOS based about 20 years ago. You will need programs like Headroom (which I have a copy of) to put the ipx files in upper memory. It's a shame I didn't know about this last year as I dumped all that network software, manuals and start up discs thinking no one would one a Novell Network. The speed is exceptional...even compared to today's networks. This sort of networking can be very tedious and it may be difficult to find anyone that does these DOS networks anymore. However, with some reading and diligence it's all very possible. You need to have a central server, then just load up the drivers for the network card and Novell into upper DOS created by Headroom (this is so that kernels needed by shell and DP can be shared in this area). Expanded memory manager needed from either DOS or QEMM for all memory. DP will automatically recognize server at each station. Will work fine on 486 chip, really no need for anything faster. No need for huge hard drives, 10 gig more than adequate. My 29000 patients take up just 1 gig of space for the last 15 years. I'm sure all this can be put to gether with scrap parts but then there are headaches from configuration, unreliable parts, etc. It would be nice to pick up a bunch of computers all the same kind from some company changing out computers. Jon Ong MD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcos Favero Florence de Barros Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 1:53 PM To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group Subject: [Dataperf] Networking DP Dear list colleagues, This is a request for help with networking DP. The DP application I implemented in our health center is a success. Users are enthusiastic! The center is part of the public health system, and takes (good) care of 30,000 people, mostly from poor neighbourhoods. (A comment is in order here about how people react to DP. Most of these doctors and nurses are very smart and pragmatic. Although they are initially puzzled at the sight of a character-based screen, in minutes they realize that DP is doing exactly the things they so badly want ... and it does them with a certain elegance all its own. They are surprised! And if any still has reservations, I put on my technical face and casually tell them the system will handle 5 million records and 9,999 network users without crashing. And I tell them about our mailing list. That does the trick.) Now doctors and nurses are glimpsing all the possible uses of the system, and they would like to have access to the database from 5 different rooms in the building, i.e., we need a network. I have no experience with networks, so any suggestions from you will be welcome. I'm not a computer professional; my background is in engineering. For economic and environmental reasons we are using old computers (typically early Pentiums) donated by individuals from the community. They are running on pure DOS. We are prepared to buy spare parts (network cards, etc.) as needed, but we would like to stay away from fancy hardware and software. Keeping things simple and inexpensive will help replicate the project at other health centers. Thanks, Marcos Florence -------------------------------- Marcos Favero Florence de Barros Campinas (near Sao Paulo), Brazil [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
