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| Thread ID: 45082 | 2004-05-08 22:43:00 | Xp Home or Pro for surgery | Neil McC (178) | Press F1 |
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| 235340 | 2004-05-08 22:43:00 | Have a Dr friend who's looking at replacing his old pc's with 3 new ones.Would Pro be better than Home for his use,seeing the pc's will be on all day etc? | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 235341 | 2004-05-08 22:48:00 | The length of time on etc has nothing to do with it. XP Pro would be essential as access to patient info needs to be kept as securely as possible. Home only provides limited user security settings |
godfather (25) | ||
| 235342 | 2004-05-08 22:54:00 | Thanks gf,wondered about that too.He's considering going the Dell way. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 235343 | 2004-05-08 23:37:00 | would pro make that much of a difference ? with only 3 pc's and a small mumber of staff i doubt user security settings would matter much at all. after all i doubt the pc's are going to easly accessable by non-staff. i wonder how good the sicurity is on the existing pc's ??? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 235344 | 2004-05-08 23:51:00 | tweak'e,I think they're 3-4 years old.The problem now is with new software that needs Xp to work properly. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 235345 | 2004-05-09 00:22:00 | > would pro make that much of a difference ? In truth, probably not. However it comes down to the "duty of care" that has to be exercised by the Dr with protecting sensitive information. That "duty of care" probably can't be maintained to a sufficient level with Home user security settings. In practice these settings may never be fully used anyway, as pointed out by tweak'e. The professional indemnity cover would however require it I believe. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 235346 | 2004-05-09 21:01:00 | Thanks gf.I'll point that out to him. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 235347 | 2004-05-09 23:21:00 | >The professional indemnity cover would however require it I believe. a very good point. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 235348 | 2004-05-10 01:34:00 | Prefessional Indemnity won't come right out and say "You must use XP Pro", but if the worst happened and patient data was made public, and the public then sued the Dr for negligence, the insurers would look closely at the overall securities that were put in place. Thats when you find out that it was not worth saving the few dollars in the first place. |
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