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Submitted by annaplatt on Tue, 26/11/2013 - 13:37
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Hello - we are about to go digital with our xrays and was told that the images are terribly slow to open with the 'Thin terminal servers' as apposed to a PC. We are a bit concerned as we just have Thin terminals in the consult rooms and work area. Just wondered  if this is indeed the case ? and if this is the case do you just live with it or have found away around it? Thanks Anna

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Re: Digital Xrays

Submitted by tgething (not verified) on Mon, 02/12/2013 - 16:53.

Anna - firstly apologies for not responding earlier.

The Hong Kong practice runs a number of WyseTerms - functionally thin clients - they run a special version of XP.  All of these are simply use the windows remote desktop connection facility to log into a Win2003 server and then the user does their stuff there - run excel, word, outlook, RxWorks, internet browser, etc [but not yet OpenVPMS - that replaces RxWorks after Christmas].

In this type of enviroment, the thin client needs only enough grunt to display the screen - because all the work is being done on the server.  However, you do need to be careful about what the users run on the server. There is a camera system (so that at night the minimal staff can see what is happening elsewhere in the building). This uses java to display the video, and two thin clients showing the 6 cameras would use 50% of the server. The fix to this was to switch the WyseTerms to places where the night staff did not want to have the camera feeds displayed, and replace them with regular PCs and then use the PC to display the video, rather than do it when logged in to the server.

Bottom line - thin clients are no problem UNLESS they need to run application which needs a lot of grunt.  I don't think the Xrays will be a problem - unless you are using videos rather than stills.

Regards, Tim G

Re: Digital Xrays

Submitted by ck234 (not verified) on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 07:09.

Anna - we view x-rays on very old machines.  But they are compressed jpegs of the original image (which lives on our PACs server).

This works fine for showing clients.  But I would not recommend viewing the original dicom images on anything but a high-powered machine.  Whoever suppliers the PACs server (x-ray image server) can advise you on the protocol for viewing across your local network.

Re: Digital Xrays

Submitted by annaplatt on Wed, 04/12/2013 - 14:48.

Thanks for your help! Will just have the jpegs on pets history. Anna

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