On Monday 27 November 2006 5:34 pm, Horst Herb wrote: > However, a single message out of these 14,000 that fails to get read in > time may jeopardize a patients health > > If I am forced to have a variety of proprietary messaging clients on my > computer - programs that on top of all will only run on an unreliable > platform - in my books that increases the likelihood of disaster, no matter > how small that likelihood is to begin with.
My experience with having multiple messaging clients is :::: that you don't know when one of them is down, maybe for days, maybe for weeks. "How long has it been since we had a report from XXX radiology?" is a common question. Then I have to check the server (where they insist on being installed) to try to work which client radiology XX uses, whether it is running, how it can be started or stopped and when it last downloaded a result. Then, if I haven't got it running, I have to ring the support for the downloader (usually the path/radiol co) and ask them. Then I have to wait for sentient advice and, all going well, they tell me how to fix it or what day they can come and fix it. An hour of this and the waiting room looks like modern-day Iraq. jh -- I've been walking down a lonely street You'd be amazed at the people I meet Saying hello to people all day Wonder why they turn away Split Enz - Sweet Talking Spoon Song (P Judd, T Finn) _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
