team: deployment

sites

By design, site requirements are minimal. A site needs a shared internet connection (a low-end business DSL connection could accommodate a dozen or more users) and a printer for appointment slips and patient education materials. SacDoc can, and has, been used from handheld computers and smartphones (see SacDoc on an iPhone, right). SacDoc will work with almost any browser, but because of its history of security problems and rendering flaws, I recommend against Microsoft Internet Explorer. Try Opera, Safari, Firefox, or Camino instead.

I have yet to encounter a site that doesn't have adequate computer power and software to run SacDoc.

servers

All existing sites are currently served from my closet data center, though the LAMP technology underlying SacDoc means that it can run on almost any server hardware anywhere. SacDoc runs on a dedicated server, to minimize security risks, but the server is laughingly ancient.

The nascent Fast Track same day appointment technology, however, is a bit more demanding. For development purposes, it has been running on relatively low-end hardware. In order to handle the dozens of simultaneous calls, however, it will require higher-end hardware and a relatively capacious internet connection.

The most rapid deployment path would involve keeping all functions at my datacenter (which has conditioned power and redundant high-speed fiber optic and DSL internet connections). While it would make sense to eventually relocate servers on-site, with resident information technology teams, the existing setup has served users for nearly ten years with an excellent security and reliability record.

Proceed to demise of the RST