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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 01:22 AM EDT |
I can't really say for certain, not having experience at a
vet's office or knowing what his database is...
However, these are my best bets (sorry about the missing
links!):
OpenSuSE Medical (DVD!)
CDMEDIC
Debian Med blend, if you can find an ISO
Knoppix medical CD
...
Some livecd with a compatible DBM.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 05:53 AM EDT |
Is he computer savvy, and is he running on a network?
If no, and no, I'd suggest Puppy Linux (www.puppylinux.org).
Imho the best linux
for moving away from other operating systems. It feels most
like windows, (because with a default install you are always
root), but also poses the same potential security issues
(because with a default install you are always root).
Oh, and it runs entirely in memory (and can save to CD/DVD),
so if he doesn't like it, he can get rid of it, and it won't
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 07:16 AM EDT |
Depending on the nature of his old software, his old patient data may be in a
proprietary format that might make it difficult to export or translate to
another system. I know that a lot of proprietary medical and dental office
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 08:35 AM EDT |
The reason why Windows will win (or continue to live) is
that there are many small shops out there, running a 3rd
party application that runs on Windows..., and the problem
is that you need a LINUX app that will use the data base
EXACTLY the same as it is now.
Otherwise, the customer or person who wants to run LINUX has
to re-input years of data (that might be $100,000's of
thousands of dollars of man hours). So, upgrading to
windows, and paying the support costs of the software
company who developed and maintains their windows software,
is cheaper by far vs moving to Linux with no exactly
compatible application to migrate to.
This is why Quickbooks lives and will keep those users as
Windows users as well.
Many payroll apps with years of tax reports, pay data,
vacation time tracking etc... also, running on windows can
not be migrated easily to Linux either.
It's the applications, that is what the story is.
Not the OS.
A P P L I C A T I O N S .... got it?
If you want to write a vet app that does what the current
vet app does, and uses all the existing data, then you can
take that around to other vets after you get done, and sell
them LINUX (if they run the same vet app).
The mess with medical systems, is that many run on windows
and their data structures are not standard, so no
competition to drive down price and drive up service (as if
everyone were required to use standard data bases
construction, others could come in and offer better service
and just migrate the data over to the new system). THAT was
not in the current health insurance law, and is one key
reason why I am not in favor of that law (from a data
management perspective). The health law just did not go far
enough - and in many other places it just went too far.
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| Authored by: hAckz0r on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 12:39 PM EDT |
One of my favorite LiveCD's is the Fedora Xfce LiveCD. The user interface is
simple, with low system requirements. To demo Linux, or even to use for a
known-to-be-clean financial banking session online, its great.
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/xfce/
There are also many others at fedora for those who have specific requirements:
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/
As far as the 'Veterinary business' software, it got me searching to see what
kind of Open Source Vet business software might be out there with a suitable
license. Importing the existing DB would be paramount to switching over due to
the cost. If the existing DB is exportable then an OpenSource system is the way
to go since you have control over the import process.
I first found OpenVPMS but it seems it has a yearly fee ($250 per full time emp,
1/3 for pt) as to recover their "startup costs". It probably would fit
their budget, but thats a personal decision.
I also found Hospitium which is a Web based Vet management system (using
Ruby-on-rails), but it can be installed locally under the OpenSource MIT
license.
https://hospitium.co/
https://github.com/ninetwentyfour/Hospitium
I have not been able to tell how one would go about importing an existing
Database, but it is on a MySQL server so if the current database can be exported
I am sure it is possible. The documentation seems a little sparse without having
created an account and logging in, but it looks like you can easily try the
software online.
A few OSS Vet manaagement softwares at sourceforge:
Evette
http://sourceforge.net/projects/evette/
VettoSys
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vetosys/
GnuVet
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuvet/
Oreste-vet
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oreste/
Possibly more found here, but I didn't have time to check which OS they run on
or if any are even OSS.
http://tropicalvetworld.com/?page_id=551
I wish them luck!
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 03:34 PM EDT |
| Cuspin’- We are living in the
future and I didn’t notice ---
RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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