Linux in Four Thousand Medical Practices on Server and Desktop

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Overview of Linux solutions used in roughly 4,000 medical practices, comparing commercial and free-software offerings for server and desktop use. Compares dependencies on pharma/corporate vendors, databases and programming languages, and gives concrete examples: a polished corporate product that ties practices to pharma advertising vs. smaller/vendor+free-software stacks (KBV-approved but less polished). Describes multi-seat configurations, paperless-office setups, digital dictation, secure Internet/remote-maintenance (modem/ISDN/VPN/IPsec), backup strategy (mirror servers, daily dirs, tape) and a customized Linux Diskless Clients (LDS/DXS) deployment, based on the author’s experience supporting ~400 practices.

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