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Hi Burt - We began an implementation using the Clear Cube PC Blade product with our McKesson PACS implementation. The design was focused in our OR Rooms, to allow PCs with dual monitors, for PACS Viewing capability in the rooms. The specific benefit for the OR was having the capability to remove the CPU (and other moving parts - fans) out of the room (infection control), in addition to being able to support hardware related issues w/o having to schedule downtime in the OR Rooms. And, the PC Blade architecture (similar to Server Blades) allows you to automatically reprovision PC blades, if one fails within the chassis; e.g. automatic or manual hot swaps, redundancy, etc. In addition, we had the option to deploy these units to our remote Ortho-pods. We would either centralize the PC blades at our central data center, or deploy them out in the network closet at the remote facility. There are pros/cons to implementing either architecture. But, imagine the need not to have to deploy a PC tech to resolve PC related hardware problems (we have sites that are 11 - 15 miles away, and we support 6 remote sites). The obvious dependency on this architecture is that you have a reliable WAN connection to those remote facilities, and they are secure... With all of that being said, McKesson HMI (current version) does not support a dual-display mode with the Clearcube PCs. They are promising a fix in their next release of the HMI product - TBR in Jan. '07 (I believe). /Thanh -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ridge, Burt Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Anyone using Clear Cube? All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
