Michael Christie wrote:
Hi to all,
Our local GP division is doing a project to enable GPs to access their
medical software at their surgery at the nursing home via the Internet.
The nursing home is providing Internet Access.
They are using free software called Logmein (www.logmein.com)
It seems to work well. I can very easily log into my computer at the
clinic via the net. The screen looks just like it would back at the
surgery. I can check path and XR results and check and add to any of my
pts EHR.
The only drawback I can see is I would not be able to print out say the
Comprehensive Medical Assessment forms that my software can generate, or
print out the progress notes I make on my EHR to put in the nursing
homes paper history.
They would print of course but back at my surgery!
Have any of you really bright fellows think of a way around this
limitation?
Regards
Michael Christie
Michael,
What's the security like?
I have set-up some GPs with hardware-based VPN's that use VNC or
PcAnywhere inside the IPSEC VPN tunnel. PcAnywhere has the remote
printing that you seek.
I wouldn't use VNC, PcAnywhere or RDP without the VPN. I expect that
Logmein uses a similar technology, so I'd pass on it as well, unless
someone can convince me otherwise.
As a third party support person I don't ever want a GP coming back to me
saying he got hacked and lost data or had unauthorised access through a
technology I recommended and installed, thanks very much.
Similarly, our Cardiab-Argus project encrypts everything it transmits
and receives, and provides no new security hole at the practice end.
What choices GPs make for themselves is another, 'caveat emptor' matter.
Greg
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Canterbury Division of General Practice
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