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KVM
Does anyone know of a KVM that will support 3 monitors?
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[link]https://www.adder.com/en/kvm-solutions/switch[/link]
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Is your purpose to have two separate PACS on two separate computers drive the same monitors? Can you not (or are you not allowed to) run both PACS on the same computer and just toggle (alt-TAB) back and forth?
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Depends on the PACS and the VPN setup. But also you can’t have two powerscribe instances running at once so it depends on what dictation software you’re using.
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If your computer is powerful enough, you could use VMWare or similar to create internal virtual computers.
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I ordered a connectpro 4 computer with dual displayport. Eventually daisy chain it.
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Quote from DoctorDalai
If your computer is powerful enough, you could use VMWare or similar to create internal virtual computers.
Thats what I do. Our different PACS dont get along so I have different VMs running,one for for each hospital. The problem is that VMs dont share the dictation mike very well and you have to keep disabling it in one VM before you switch to the other. The other issue is that some display adapters dont provide the full color depth when they display a VM. So, if you need to switch back and forth all night, it makes sense to run separate workstations via a KVM.-
Seems like such a…[i]brute force[/i] approach!
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issue with Vmware – getting hospital to ok installation on vmware… I’ve tried and been denied.
Each hospital IT system wants to control the whole computer. it would be great if I could just run multiple systems with vmware…-
Maybe connect both to one monitor and switch “input” then get a cheap USB switch for KM+dictaphone.
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Quote from 2BRads
Maybe connect both to one monitor and switch “input” then get a cheap USB switch for KM+dictaphone.
My diagnostic monitor only has 1 set of inputs
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I once tried to get the major hospital systems in our mid-sized town to create a single PACS for the entire city. Technically this isn’t all that hard to do, but the individual hospitals went ballistic. “You want us to work with that other hospital that’s suing us!?” (It was challenging a CON, but CTO’s may not understand such things.) “You would allow our precious, pristine data to co-mingle with the filthy data of the filthy patients of that other hospital??? NEVER!!!!”
Ironically, 20++ years later, it might happen due to takeovers, mergers, and other mischief. -
Quote from DoctorDalai
I once tried to get the major hospital systems in our mid-sized town to create a single PACS for the entire city. Technically this isn’t all that hard to do, but the individual hospitals went ballistic. “You want us to work with that other hospital that’s suing us!?” (It was challenging a CON, but CTO’s may not understand such things.) “You would allow our precious, pristine data to co-mingle with the filthy data of the filthy patients of that other hospital??? NEVER!!!!”
Ironically, 20++ years later, it might happen due to takeovers, mergers, and other mischief.
15 years ago, I suggested on this board that radiology groups should cooperate and cross-cover each other for overnight coverage rather than nurturing the snake that is corporate teleradiology. ‘Community call’ is something many other specialties do, often across competing hospitals. ENT, plastics, ophtho, OMFS, radonc all do this. They compete by day, but they dont want to go in at 1am to stuff a nosebleed on one of their post-ops. I was told that I was crazy, would cause the groups to steal each others contracts and be responsible for the breakdown of western civilization. Well, it looks like all of these people will eventually work as employees for RP and end up on one billing number anyway. -
Quote from DoctorDalai
I once tried to get the major hospital systems in our mid-sized town to create a single PACS for the entire city. Technically this isn’t all that hard to do, but the individual hospitals went ballistic. “You want us to work with that other hospital that’s suing us!?” (It was challenging a CON, but CTO’s may not understand such things.) “You would allow our precious, pristine data to co-mingle with the filthy data of the filthy patients of that other hospital??? NEVER!!!!”
Ironically, 20++ years later, it might happen due to takeovers, mergers, and other mischief.
This type of unified radiology platform has been implemented by many rad groups to cover their regions. Sometimes the hospital pay, sometimes the rad group pays, sometimes they share expenses. Archiving sometimes lives in the hospitals, sometimes the rad group PACS becomes the archive. It’s a cadillac experience for the rads and, of course, improves patient care.
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Thank you, Capitan Obvio! 😉
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We used to share a PACS (and other IT resources) across several non-competing community hospitals. It allowed them to centralize things in one data-center with enough business to have some depth to the IT department. Rather than each hospital having to keep ‘Jeff the IT guy’ on call every other night, there was a dedicated support team and other people who did more of the forward looking work. It also added some efficiencies in software licensing. Each hospital had on-site servers to keep a copy of the most recent 6 months of data but the archive was at the joint data center. If for some reason, the connection broke down, there was a backup PACS at each location that could run off the local discs. This worked because our geographic footprints didn’t overlap. Eventually, the hospitals lost their independence and sold out one by one to different megacorps, but it worked well while it lasted.
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0 I have 3 monitors with 2 pcs that have to be separate. Monitors are all DVIs. So far I only found this Adder KVM that looks compatible,
[link=https://www.kvm-switches-online.com/av4pro-dvi-tri-us.html]https://www.kvm-switches-…av4pro-dvi-tri-us.html[/link]
Anything cheaper?
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