[Debian-med-packaging] Connecting a lab analyzer to a PC

[sanjaya de silva]

Dear Oliver,
Many thanks for the prompt reply. It is very much appreciated.
I am a medical doctor by profession and not really thorough with computer terminology. I have worked with an information system when I was in Australia.
The"data will not travel from Linux analyzer to Windows computer" was told by the local agent for the analyzer in Sri Lanka.
Can you please let me know exactly how it should be done in simple terms. I can let the IT persons know.

Thank you.
Kind Regards
Sanjaya

--- On Sun, 4/11/12, olivier.sallou at codeless.fr <olivier.sallou at codeless.fr> wrote:

From: olivier.sallou at codeless.fr <olivier.sallou at codeless.fr>
Subject: Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Connecting a lab analyzer to a PC
To: "sanjaya de silva" <shussanjaya at yahoo.com>
Cc: debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org
Date: Sunday, 4 November, 2012, 9:37 AM


  

    
  
  
    

    Le 11/4/12 7:15 AM, sanjaya de silva a
      écrit :

    
    
      
        
          
            Hi 

              I am Dr Sanjaya De silva, hematologist working in Sr
              Lanka. Its an island in the Indian ocean just to the south
              of India.

              Currently we use paper based test request system in our
              hospitals. The doctors will write down the requests and
              the samples will be brought to the lab manually and we
              will analyze the samples and print out the reports which
              will be hand collected by the staff.

              I am planning to set up a basic system  to view finished
              lab reports from a PC located in the ward. Requests can be
              still on paper to start with. Currently we do not have a
              information system in place in the hospital. So i am
              thinking of hard wiring the PC and the analyzer to start
              with.

              We will be getting a new hematology analyzer brand name BC
              5800 Mindray.

              

              http://www.mindray.com/en/products/25.html
              
              

              I thought this will be a good point try out the data
              connection and informed the Mindray agent in sri lanka
              about my requirement. They said they will try but the
              difficulty is the  analyzer uses Linux and the PC uses
              windows. So data will not travel.

              Can you please help to solve this problem. Your advise is
              most welcome as we do not have the expertise.

            
          
        
      
    
    Hi,

    this mailing list is appropriate, it is related to Debian (med)
    software packaging effort but not Linux support.

    However, I am not sure to understand why you say "data will not
    travel". You could use samba to make network connections/file
    sharing between Linux and Windows (Debian or any other).

    You could have a file server on your Linux analyser and mount this
    "disk" on Windows.

    

    Regards

    

    Olivier

    

    
      
        
          
            

              Thank you.

              Kind Regards

              Dr Sanjaya De silva
          
        
      
      

      
      

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