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Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed on the go - take the EMR with you
From: |
James Busser |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed on the go - take the EMR with you |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:24:00 -0700 |
On 12-Sep-08, at 4:02 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
Disclaimer: Do not use it for anything else but testing when
installing on
your local PC. Once you decide to use GNUmed on your PC we
recommend a full
installation as described over at wiki.gnumed.de
I am just wondering about the disclaimer. The hospital in which I
work is huge and sometimes I am even having to be at the other
hospital in town. This means I might be located 45 minutes from my
office and unless I bring my laptop everywhere (and, even then, there
are some restrictions in the hospitals when policy limits my laptop
usage) that I need some way to run GNUmed off desktop machines.
It appears that my options would be:
1) use LiveCD... but this is likely to be (a) very slow and (b) I am
not sure how I could modify the config file inside the iso (if it
would even be possible) in order to be able to connect to anything
other than the pre-installed on-CD database or the public database
2) boot from portable device or, if a boot from the hospital pc would
remain faster, *run from* the portable device.
I continue to need some way to connect from a machine on which I have
no "install" privileges. So I am only wondering at the disclaimer to
run from portable device only for testing. If it is a matter of
speed... well... I understand the portable devices to all be
gradually speeding up. I am willing to tolerate slowness for short
periods... we have an expression in English (maybe other languages)
"beggars can't be choosers".
Is it a question of maintainability? In other words the person who
depends on the portable device will be stuck unable to use properly
updatable clients?