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We are a start-up in the Bay Area of California called MediGrail LLC. We think of our company having a profit and a non-profit side. The OpenEMR implementation described below is a part of the latter. | We are a start-up in the Bay Area of California called MediGrail LLC. We think of our company having a profit and a non-profit side. The OpenEMR implementation described below is a part of the latter. | ||
* ''' | * '''Installation time-frame''' December 2011 to January 2012 | ||
* '''Location''' Western, rural Kenya and the government facility is called Siaya District Hospital | * '''Location''' Western, rural Kenya and the government facility is called Siaya District Hospital | ||
* '''Contact''' DR OMOTO JACKTON, TEL +254 -721-761484 | * '''Contact''' DR OMOTO JACKTON, TEL +254 -721-761484 | ||
* '''Address''' MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT, SIAYA DISTRICT HOSPITAL, P. O. BOX 144 SIAYA, KENYA, Postal Code 40600 | * '''Address''' MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT, SIAYA DISTRICT HOSPITAL, P. O. BOX 144 SIAYA, KENYA, Postal Code 40600 | ||
* '''When''' Siaya District Hospital goes live 13 April 2012 | |||
* '''What''' Automated a 220-bed hospital - network, workstations, servers, and UPS | |||
* '''Who''' Created a team split in 4 groups: the systems administrators, Facilities manager, IT manager, and | |||
applications administrators. This team consists of Siaya people and the MediGrail staff members. | |||
* '''Equipment''' | * '''Equipment''' | ||
* An Intel Atom Supermicro server with 4 GB RAM and a 32 GB SSD drive which is the firewall and a Linux boot | * An Intel Atom Supermicro server with 4 GB RAM and a 32 GB SSD drive which is the firewall and a Linux boot | ||
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* Intel Xeon Sun server with 6 GB RAM and two drives which is the application server during the day and | * Intel Xeon Sun server with 6 GB RAM and two drives which is the application server during the day and | ||
backup server at night. The application is ofcourse OpenEMR (open-emr.org) and bacula.org for backups. | backup server at night. The application is ofcourse OpenEMR (open-emr.org) and bacula.org for backups. | ||
* The backbone is provided by HP Procurve 9078a Gigabit switches connected via Fiber Optic cables | * The backbone is provided by HP Procurve 9078a 24-port Gigabit switches connected via Fiber Optic cables | ||
* Currently 40 Panasonic toughbook laptops | * Currently 40 Panasonic toughbook laptops | ||
* Inverting Opti-ups UPS and APC UPS | * Inverting Opti-ups UPS and APC UPS | ||
* '''Network''' The systems administration team laid over 9,000 feet of network cabling in conduit and | |||
terminated all the endpoints. Installed 3 switches and connected them via Fiber Optic cable runs. The network | |||
will expand to 5 switches and each will be protected by voltage regulators and UPS. | |||
* '''Workstations''' We had to change our original thin-client stand-alone workstation design to laptops | |||
because you cannot reliably ship equipment to Kenya. We had to take all the equipment on the airplane with us. | |||
The workstations have a minimum of 512 MB RAM, no hard drive and no battery. This is intentional given the | |||
sensitivity of the data. Laptops boot off the network into a very small 55 MB footprint Linux distribution | |||
called Slitaz. It contains Abiword, Gunmeric spreadsheet, Firefox browser, a PDF viewer, and a file server | |||
mount utility called sshfs. | |||
Revision as of 06:20, 25 March 2012
Overview
- Plan to place clinic success stories here. Can be entries such as:
- A review type entry (a snapshot in time) on this page
- A link to an article/blog/sourceforge review/case study entry
- A link to a blog that describes the deployment over time
We are a start-up in the Bay Area of California called MediGrail LLC. We think of our company having a profit and a non-profit side. The OpenEMR implementation described below is a part of the latter.
* Installation time-frame December 2011 to January 2012 * Location Western, rural Kenya and the government facility is called Siaya District Hospital * Contact DR OMOTO JACKTON, TEL +254 -721-761484 * Address MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT, SIAYA DISTRICT HOSPITAL, P. O. BOX 144 SIAYA, KENYA, Postal Code 40600 * When Siaya District Hospital goes live 13 April 2012 * What Automated a 220-bed hospital - network, workstations, servers, and UPS * Who Created a team split in 4 groups: the systems administrators, Facilities manager, IT manager, and applications administrators. This team consists of Siaya people and the MediGrail staff members. * Equipment * An Intel Atom Supermicro server with 4 GB RAM and a 32 GB SSD drive which is the firewall and a Linux boot server - running pfSense (pfsense.org) * An Intel Atom Supermicro server with 4 GB RAM and a 2 TB drive which is the file server, IM server and future inter-department phone switch running on Ubuntu Linux and mounting user directories via sshfs. * Intel Xeon Sun server with 6 GB RAM and two drives which is the application server during the day and backup server at night. The application is ofcourse OpenEMR (open-emr.org) and bacula.org for backups. * The backbone is provided by HP Procurve 9078a 24-port Gigabit switches connected via Fiber Optic cables * Currently 40 Panasonic toughbook laptops * Inverting Opti-ups UPS and APC UPS * Network The systems administration team laid over 9,000 feet of network cabling in conduit and terminated all the endpoints. Installed 3 switches and connected them via Fiber Optic cable runs. The network will expand to 5 switches and each will be protected by voltage regulators and UPS. * Workstations We had to change our original thin-client stand-alone workstation design to laptops because you cannot reliably ship equipment to Kenya. We had to take all the equipment on the airplane with us. The workstations have a minimum of 512 MB RAM, no hard drive and no battery. This is intentional given the sensitivity of the data. Laptops boot off the network into a very small 55 MB footprint Linux distribution called Slitaz. It contains Abiword, Gunmeric spreadsheet, Firefox browser, a PDF viewer, and a file server mount utility called sshfs.
