RE: [MEDITECH-L] Anyone using Wyse thin clients w/XP Embedded

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:38:05 -0700 

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Hi Ross!
 
We have 18-20 Citrix 4.0 servers in our Citrix farm and approx 300-350 Wyse thin clients - about 2/3 of them are CE based and the other third are XPe based - we have not experienced any negative issues related to using XPe - in fact, XPe actually offers some advantages over CE based - especially when using MS apps like Office and IE - all future thin clients purchased here will be the Wyse V90 - XPe based and very fast. We use them on wireless carts and as desktop devices. We also have over 450 PCs, so we are not 100% thin clients.
 
We have not had any issues with MEDITECH 3.x or 4.x running on CE based or XPe based thin clients - except that the newer V90s are much faster, especially when viewing PACS images through PCI.
 
I hope this helps.
 
 
Rick Edwards
Senior Director - CIO
Howard County General Hospital
5755 Cedar Lane
Columbia, MD 21044
v: (410) 740-7230
f: (410) 740-7565
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Ross M. Youngdale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 1:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Anyone using Wyse thin clients w/XP Embedded

We purchased three of them about a year ago to test them.  They have worked very well as MEDITECH clients.  In the end, our IT Steering committee decided that they were not in favor of the technology due to possible limitations in the big picture. 

 

A MEDITECH employee explained that the thin clients were not supported because they had not been tested and that there were not plans to test them since the XPe that is installed can be installed in different ways and they would not be able to validate that it would always work.  I didn’t see any difference in this and all other versions of Windows, but oh well. 

 

We looked at ClearCube, Citrix and Lenovo Workstations and have decided to move forward with the Lenovo ThinkCentres and ThinkPads.  There were a lot of pros and cons on all of these options, but in the long run we knew that all new technologies would be created for PCs and it was a bonus for the vendor if it also worked on the other technologies.

 

Ross

 

 

Ross M. Youngdale

Director of Information Technology

Crisp Regional Health Services

PO Box 5007

Cordele, GA  31010

(O) 229-276-3171

(C) 229-942-5874

(P) 229-879-1109

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean K. Anderson
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Anyone using Wyse thin clients w/XP Embedded

 

Yes, at a hospital I was previously in implementation with.  We could not get it work at all and Meditech would not help us as it was their policy not to support thin clients and the vendor just couldn’t figure it out either.  We ended up swapping every thin client out for a PC in the end.

 

Sean K. Anderson

Report Analyst - Information Technologies

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