Well the Wiki works, and it's on the frontpage of the main site, but
since there seems to be some confusion I'll just post the body of the
text here:
HCR Imaging, Inc.
My day job is Director of IT for a document management company. We scan
around 60,000 images of paper medical records on a daily basis. We use a
mixture of Linux and Windows servers and workstations, and my network
pushes around 30 GB of data around per work shift. We're a small
business (14 employees), and providing solutions for our customers is
our priority, not just selling a service or project. Read on for how we
use Lazarus in our day to day operations.
I'm a strong advocate of Linux, so I've attempted to switch as many
machines in the office to Linux as possible. This has left me with a
mixture of Windows and Linux machines, because the main application we
use to produce our product is Win32 only.
Generally what we do is scan medical records for large hospitals, and
produce those on CD or DVD for archive purposes. The original paper is
then shredded. Most of our customers access the information directly
from the CD or DVD, but a few have special servers in place to act as
repositories.
In the healthcare field, there is no one standard for management
software. This has left us the task of integrating data we produce with
our software into various types of management packages. Due to the large
volume of data we work with, we have special servers designed only for
document and index conversion.
Lazarus and FreePascal have allowed me to write very quick and easy
(RAD) utilities that allow us to convert the data and images over to the
appropriate format, after being exported from our own server. Since I
have some machines in Linux and some in Windows, in most cases I'm able
to compile the same conversion utility for either environment, depending
upon what server is available at the time. The ease of the Lazarus IDE
and RAD design allow us to take a basic framework application that I've
developed as a series of objects and modify it for use for new formats
as they arise, in a very short period of time.
We also aquired some tape backups from old AIX servers that have MS Word
documents embedded within a proprietary database. Windows won't even
recognize the tapes. Using a combination of Lazarus, OpenOffice and the
standard Linux tape utilities, I'm able to extract the indexes and
embedded documents from those tapes, convert them to TIFF images using
OpenOffice and burn them in a format ready for import in a new system,
completely unattended.
Lazarus is the glue that helps us provide that "value add" to our
customers that many companies lack. Its RAD design, similarity with
previous Pascal IDE's that we were already familiar with and
cross-platform nature have allowed us to provide services we never would
have been able to before.
Tony Maro <http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/User:Tonymaro>
Dir. Information Technology
HCR Imaging, Inc.
http://www.hcrimaging.com
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