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

[Andreas Tille]

Dear Sanjaya,

unfortunately I guess we can not give you some exact advise because we
finally do not know your actual setup and the way you are accessing your
analyzer.  What we can say for sure is that your local agent is not
telling the truth if he says that data can not travel between Linux and
Windows computers.  This has proven to be wrong in billions of cases all
over the world.  For example you are transfering data from a Linux
machine to a Windows machine if you are doing a query to google which is
Linux based from your Windows machine.  So you can take for granted that
this is possible - but you obviousely need some help of a competent
person locally who knows how to do this in your setup.

On the other hand - if all else fails you might consider replacing your
Windows machine by a Linux computer which might not be the worst idea
anyway depending on the tasks you want to do.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:48:46AM -0800, sanjaya de silva wrote:
> 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:
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> 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
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>     Le 11/4/12 7:15 AM, sanjaya de silva a
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>               I am Dr Sanjaya De silva, hematologist working in Sr
>               Lanka. Its an island in the Indian ocean just to the south
>               of India.
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>               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.
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>               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.
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>               We will be getting a new hematology analyzer brand name BC
>               5800 Mindray.
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>               http://www.mindray.com/en/products/25.html
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>               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.
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>               Can you please help to solve this problem. Your advise is
>               most welcome as we do not have the expertise.
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>     Hi,
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>     this mailing list is appropriate, it is related to Debian (med)
>     software packaging effort but not Linux support.
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>     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).
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>     You could have a file server on your Linux analyser and mount this
>     "disk" on Windows.
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>     Regards
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>     Olivier
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>               Kind Regards
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>               Dr Sanjaya De silva
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