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  • Medical records company Epic partners with Apple on a Mac tool

    verne araseverne arase
    I run Epic on my Macs daily using the Citrix app.  It’s the only way my hospital will allow it to happen, and all the Windows users have the same restriction.  Citrix creates a virtual sandbox in which (and a number of other apps) run; the interface looks like a blend of Linux and Windows 95.  The idea is that the program,era don’t have to worry about Windows or MacOS, they just have to worry about Citrix.
    Citrix is simply allowing multiple client instances to run on a single Windows server, accessed via Remote Desktop Protocol.

    Underlaying that is probably VMWare, virtualizing Windows servers on one or more ginormous Wintel boxes (depending on the scope of your enterprise).

    Of course, this is simply the infrastructure required to run the Epic Client - the server side of Epic is probably running on some kind of Unix cluster under something like AIX.
    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Medical records company Epic partners with Apple on a Mac tool

    verne araseverne arase
    rob53 said:
    I dislike dealing with Epic health records systems but I've also seen more Macs and iOS devices being used in medical offices so Epic needs to accept the fact Apple is around and stop ignoring them, making only garbage Windows systems. Epic, and many other Windows-based health records systems, have gotten away with forcing health care providers to use their systems that are as open as Windows wants them to be. Windows is still the least secure and most heavily and easily attacked operating system in the world and they've probably bought off regulators and members of Congress to keep rules and regulations limited so they can't be held responsible for data loss. I wish this article would have included any data loss by Epic systems.
    Actually, it's worse than that.

    Most enterprises which run Epic have found it's so difficult to keep Windows up to a set maintenance level that they have to run the Epic client on a set of specially maintained virtual desktop servers, and use RDP Windows or thin linux-based clients on user desktops to peer into those virtual clients.
    baconstanglolliverFileMakerFellerAlex_Vwatto_cobra

  • China asks retired military to fill posts at Foxconn's iPhone factory

    verne araseverne arase
    Definitely not a fan of the PLA stepping foot into an Apple plant - there'd soon be a HUAWEI clone of the iPhone (just ask Elon).

    Apple needs to get global production out of China.
    baconstangblastdoorwatto_cobra

  • Apple & Amazon sued over illegal price fixing collusion

    verne araseverne arase
    That was the cure for all the counterfeit products being sold on Amazon.

    I, unlike some don't want to kill all lawyers - but I do believe violence against greedy class action lawyers should be lowered to misdemeanor levels.  o:)
    watto_cobra

  • Apple rolls out new AirTag firmware update

    verne araseverne arase
    My AirTags are at 1.0.301 and I can't find any way to update the firmware level.

    Spend over an hour getting AirPods updated yesterday, but thus far AirTags have proven immune to everything I've tried.

    I think I'm going to just go with whatever firmware level they're at - especially since lord knows what's changed anyway.

    Apple really needs to include controls for firmware updates in the Mac or iOS devices.
    watto_cobra