Oliver Frank wrote: > Tim Churches wrote: >> Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> This is not so. With Argus, there is only one connection - from >>> the pathologist (or whoever is sending the message) to the >>> recipient. Argus messaging is point to point without going through >>> a third party other than the public Internet. >> >> Well, actually there are a number, typically at least two, mail >> servers involved as well. These mail servers tend to be operated by >> your ISP, but they might be operated by a third party. > > I knew that, and included the mail servers and ISPs in my concept of > 'the public Internet' (even though I understand that each ISP is owned > and operated by a particular person or company). What I meant was that > with Argus, the message is not forced to be routed through the server of > a commercial (or non-commercial) provider of the clinical messaging > system, which might be in another country, but instead will traverse > public Internet in the same as any other email message.
The point, I think, is that, typically, with Argus you only have to rely principally on one company, and that is your ISP, who provides both your Internet connection and your mail server. If ArgusConnect, the company, fails, either short-term due to a technical glitch, or permanently for business or other reasons, then everything keeps working. By contrast, with all the other secure health messaging providers, you rely on two companies: your ISP, which supplies your Internet connection, and on the messaging provider, which supplies some centralised service or gateway which must keep operating in order for messages to flow. Is that a fair assessment of major third-party secure messaging dependencies? Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
