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will expand to 5 switches and each will be protected by voltage regulators and UPS. | 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 | * '''Workstations''' We had to change our original thin-client stand-alone workstation design to laptops | ||
because you cannot reliably ship equipment to Kenya. | because you cannot reliably ship equipment to Kenya. The equipment went with us on the airplane. 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 | 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 | called Slitaz. It contains Abiword, Gunmeric spreadsheet, Firefox browser, a PDF viewer, and a file server | ||
mount utility called sshfs. | mount utility called sshfs. | ||
Revision as of 06:35, 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, telephone +254 -721-761484, Yudhvir Singh Sidhu, sidhu@medigrail.com * 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. The equipment went with us on the airplane. 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.
