RE: [MEDITECH-L] Looking for info on PACS Administrator position

See below: Gary Gevaert >>> Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty <<< Project Analyst Niagara Health System - Shaver Site DataCentre Building 541 Glenridge Avenue St. Catharines, Ontario L2T 4C2 www.niagarahealth.on.ca Phone: 905-378-4647 x 44806 -Original Mes

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Meditech MAGIC and User Ease of Use

We have the same problem - It continues to amaze me how many users complain about the DOS look of Meditech and then equate that 'DOS' look with inadequate. I can show them a 'beautiful' product that lacks most of the functionality that Meditech has and they will still yearn for it over Meditech.

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Meditech Downtime - Emergency Department (EDM)

They use nothing. All of our departments are required to have a downtime process for when computers are unavailable. Remember the 3 day power failure of 2003 or SARS - all good examples of the need for a practiced downtime process. Gary Gevaert Senior Technical Analyst Niagara Health System

RE: [MEDITECH-L] RE: IP Addresses

Here is the Meditech page that discusses this; you need a meditech customer login to get to it. http://www.meditech.com/prsystems/Pages/SYSmcSCdhcpexplained.htm Joseph, we have lots of VLAN's and have no issues. As long as you make sure that your devices on the VLAN can see the DHCP server

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Wireless and VoIP

There are a number of factors to keep in mind when running wireless networks and voip phones. First and foremost, wireless is a shared environment, whereas hard wired devices are not (or at least you control how many devices are on a drop). What this means is that the wireless access POD in the c

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Public Wireless Access Policy

We are currently in the midst of building a wireless network. The policy has not yet been put down on paper but is the direction we are going. 1. Anyone connecting to our wireless network with a non-authorized piece of equipment (i.e. does not have a valid Cisco shim installed indicating it i

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Using a SAN with Meditech

We use an EMC san with our Magic servers. We use the San for a lot of other needs as well (File Servers, other applications, etc). We made sure that the Meditech servers had a dedicated pipe to the SAN whereas some of the lower priority windows servers share a pipe. We also have an IBM SAN that cam

[MEDITECH-L] Telnet Redirection - to use or not?

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Hello, We have been using telnet redirection for a while now. The problem we are trying to address by implementin

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Replacing Xyplex 1600

We use Lantronix UDS-10's for our interfaces. (known as an external device server - about the size of a deck of cards. see info at the following address: http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/external-device-servers/uds-1 0.html). We have been using them for the past 4 years with no probl

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Lantronix Device for Lab Analyzers

Jason, we use the UDS1100's little brother currently and have been for the past 4 years (the UDS-10). We have had no problems and I currently have a UDS1100 sitting on my desk that we will be trialing as a future replacement when the UDS-10 is discontinued (I believe in 2008). I have a document

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Attribute to disable the F5 key

Experience has shown us that it doesn't matter how many 'double-check' prompts you put up, users eventually memorize the steps to bypass them. Currently we have removed most of these types of pop-ups and put the focus back on the user. Any mistakes/problems are traced back and documented with tha

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Virtual Faxing?

We use the Interbit suite of faxing products for various needs (http://www.interbitdata.com/). Works fabulously! Gary Gevaert >>> Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty <<< Project Analyst Niagara Health System - Shaver Site DataCentre Building 541 Glenridge Avenue St.

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Project Management Software andMeditechImplementations

The new MS Project Server 2007 has complete integration with sharepoint. We are looking into it. We currently use Task+ which is a great helpdesk product for our helpdesk services but frankly does not work very well with project planning. Currently I use a combination of MS Project, Task+ (to sch

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Infection Control software

Hi Brian, We use Stericycle (http://www.stericycle.com/). It does HL7 or batch and we use it for Meditech LAB, ADT, OR (our OR is Piscis). I did not implement it but the lady besides me did (Nancy). If you have any questions let me know and I will pass them along to her

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Dell Servers running Magic

We are running Magic on Dell 2650's to an EMC SAN for the past 5 years. We were very early in the OSAL days so there were not many options. We went with an authorized Meditech partner to have it done. JJ Wild, if I recall correctly, was not yet doing this at the time. Today I believe you are requ

RE: [MEDITECH-L] COWs vs. PCs in the room for BMV

Don't forget the danger of having open, live ports in patient rooms. Many a virus has slipped in through this door when patients families plug their laptop into the network hoping to get out to the internet. Wireless with a NAC server (network access control) is the way to go. A NAC server will r

RE: [MEDITECH-L] COWs vs. PCs in the room for BMV

Oh, one more thing - battery life. Keep in mind that batteries need to be charged!! Cow's in busy areas (ex ER) tend to be used all the time and simply handed over to the next shift (same with wireless phones) so they will eventually run out of power. Then they quickly become a 'tethered' Cow, wh

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Allowing patient to use computers

Were in the preliminary stages of setting up a NAC (Network Access Control) server. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns466/networking_solutions_package.htm l This server will allow us to block and/or redirect non-authorized devices on our network. We plan on setting up a guest vlan where the NAC

RE: [MEDITECH-L] ELF Chips

We stopped using ELF chips years ago and switched to Iatric's forms online. We created the forms in a forms software package, uploaded it to Meditech (Iatrics folder) and it now downloads the forms as an overlay to the registration/armband/billing/etc forms. No more reprogramming ELF costs for us.

RE: [MEDITECH-L] OHIP and numbers validation (Policy # Format from MISor HLTH CARE# CHK from MIS parameters)

Well, the MIS parameter HLTH CARE# CHK just has the entry of OHCN. I take it that this is a Meditech program reference to validate the ohip #. And the OHIP insurance MIS dictionary entry has a blank for the Policy # field. There is, however, a good reference online at the Ontario ministry. Here

RE: [MEDITECH-L] LH500 & Lantronix questions?

What kind of Lantronix are you using - we use a UDS-10 that goes directly to our network and we have no problems with any of our analyzers. Gary Gevaert >>> Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty <<< Project Analyst Niagara Health System - Shaver Site DataCentr

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Policy for patient internet access

If you get anything can you also let me look at it - I'm just starting on the wireless design... Gary Gevaert >>> Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty <<< Project Analyst Niagara Health System - Shaver Site DataCentre Building 541 Glenridge Avenue St. Catharines, Ontar

RE: [MEDITECH-L] LH500 & Lantronix questions?

lt;http://www.niagarahealth.on.ca/> Phone: 905-378-4647 x 44806 From: Gary Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 20,2007 5:15 PM To: Gevaert, Gary; Sobun, Janet; meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] LH500 & Lantronix questions? Our

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Meditech Magic and Pisces OR

We interface Meditech magic (5.5.2) with Picis OR but don't do much on the inventory interfacing side. Out OR specialist, Joanne, can answer questions. I have copied her. Gary Gevaert >>> Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty <<< Project Analyst Niagara Health System

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Random M's Printing on PHA IV Labels

Unwanted characters printing at the front of a document/page are usually a printer escape code that the printer cannot interpret. This will then cause the printer to print the printable portions of the command. Most commonly this happens because a wrong printer driver is chosen during setup; a

RE: [MEDITECH-L] BACK UP for Meditech

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We utilize bridgehead for all our backups, including Meditech Magic, Meditech C/S, windows, file servers, exchange, SQL. We did p