On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 08:26, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> My wife's new clinic will be running OpenEMR, an open source
> medical records program. Sometimes patients (or their other
> doctors) want copies of their records. Rather than kill trees,
> I am thinking about putting their patient record on a stripped
> down linux live CD, along with a specially configured version
> of OpenEMR.
while i would love it if my doctor did it, i'd also figure out how to
do my own tech support to make it boot.
imagine my mom, who got her netbook without a CD-rom drive and even if
she purchases ("what kind do i need to buy?") and attaches ("what kind
of cable do i need?") one, has to change the bios to allow her to boot
from it. and imagine trying to figure out when to hit what hotkey to
bring the bios screen up (my netbook goes straight into linux without
showing the bios screen at all--i have to hit a key like crazy from
the instant of power-on to make it happen).
i think the added complexity will have *you* doing tech support,
remotely, on unknown hardware. almost certainly, someone's hardware
will be broken or otherwise incapable of running linux. and what
happens when the person who needs the records is an EMT who doesn't
have a computer handy or needs that tech support at 4am in an
ambulance?
i think i'd pay 10% more to go to that linux-savvy doctor, but i think
most people wouldn't appreciate it like the folks on this list =)
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