On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Bartels <[email protected]> wrote: > Good idea as long as "tablet" includes Android phones, iPhone, iPod > Touch, and the iPad. > > The iPad was the new hotness at HIMSS (big healthcare IT show) this > year. I'm on the fence as to which device is the best for a given > application. There is a strong argument from the doctors and high > level staff to use the devices they have rather than having to use a > shared employer-owned device like their assistants and nurses. It also > gives the sales goons at conventions and excuse to buy iPads and give > them away in exchange for sitting thru sales presentations.
He specifically mentioned "something like an iPad". I'm inclined to nudge him towards Android. > Also can you get the IT staff comfortable with supporting OpenVPN on devices? *lol* Nope, sorry, no "IT staff". I know he's got a "computer guy" he gets a hold of for some things, but I was the one who replaced the motherboard on their old EMR server when it died. So someone was competent enough to determine where the trouble was, and indicate to my father-in-law what needed to be done, but not competent enough to do it themselves. > How does the OpenVPN authentication work on a mobile device? Do you > sign into the device, sign into the VPN, then sign into the > application? You're going to lose most users at the 2nd login when > they have to have a decent VPN password. > > SSO is an option, but again will it be supported on tablets and will > it be supported by the applications they need to use? Many > applications support LDAP, poorly. > > Token based authentication could work, but still presents hurdles. > RSAKeys are good as are OpenID dongles. Can you make it work on a > tablet? > > These technical challenges aren't impossible but when you consider the > adoption hurdles you have in even a modest clinic, it starts to get > really sticky. We're talking a *very* modest clinic. Two, maybe three doctors... _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this in mind before posting.
