Computer Systems used in our Plastic Surgery our office

Disclaimer - use at your own risk. Underconstruction - more info coming hopefully. This webpage was written in Nov 2009. I have a personal interest in computers. I do not set up computers professionally. I help run a plastic surgery office in Modesto. My wife is Dr. Tammy Wu who is a board certified Plastic Surgery practicing in Modesto, California.

Computers that we have in our office as the set up for 2006-2010

Staff Computing (Receptionists and Nursing)

We have found that for EMR purposes 2 gigs of RAM memory with XP is much better than 512 megs of RAM memory. This is due to the imaging requirements (displaying, rotations, sorting) of scanned in images for our EMR (electronic medical record) or EHR (electronic health record). In many offices which are mostly paperless, there will be a lot of scanned images. The computers start using much more images to display these. I have also found that staff like putting different pictures on the background of their computers - this also takes up space on RAM. We have started by getting 512 megs of RAM for our ordinary staff workstations (for receptionists and medical assistants); however, lesson learned - we upgraded them to 2 megs of RAM. This was also helpful for some of the large spreadsheets of data that we collect daily.

Our Plastic Surgery Office Main Server Computer

Dell PowerEdge 1800 Server

This server manages our faxes, email (Microsoft Exchange), PrognoCis EMR (Made by Bizmatics), and Small Business Server 2003. I also learned the hard way that 4 GB was better than my original 2GB. I changed out the memory myself for this project and there was a large increase in computer productivity. It has a 1 terabyte RAID 5 hard-drive setup which was hard to come by when I bought this server in early 2006.

Maximum Memory Capacity: 12288MB
Currently Installed Memory: 4GB
Available Memory Slots: 4
Total Memory Slots: 6
Dual Channel Support: No
CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
CPU Family: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz Model 4, Stepping 3
CPU Speed: 2992 MHz

Specialty computers

Photography room graphics computer

Runs Adobe products (mainly photoshop and scanning)
Maximum Memory Capacity: 4096MB Currently Installed Memory: 2GB Available Memory Slots: 1 Total Memory Slots: 4 Dual Channel Support: Yes CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel CPU Family: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz Model 15, Stepping 13 CPU Speed: 1795 MHz.

VISIA computer (Dell)

Information pending

Physician Computers

Dr. Tammy Wu's Computer

She uses two 17 inch monitors on her desk and has a DVD/CD writer in her computer for plastic surgery images - sometimes she shares pictures with her cosmetic surgery patients and burns a CD for them. She has an upgraded graphics card.
Maximum Memory Capacity: 4096 MB Currently Installed Memory: 2048 MB Available Memory Slots: 2 Total Memory Slots: 4 Dual Channel Support: N.A. CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel CPU Family: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz Model 6, Stepping 4 CPU Speed: 3389 MHz

Dr. Lee's Computers

I'm probably not your usual plastic surgery office manager computer user. I usually use two computers simultaneously to get work done.

XP Laptop (HP) - Maximum Memory Capacity: 2048MB Currently Installed Memory: 2GB Available Memory Slots: 0 Total Memory Slots: 2 Dual Channel Support: No CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel CPU Family: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz Model 14, Stepping 8 CPU Speed: 1828 MHz
Vista Laptop (HP) - Pavilion cv7 Notebook PC purchased from Costco, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26/2.27 GHz, 4.00GB RAM, 64 bit operating system.
Maximum Memory Capacity:  8192MB

Currently Installed Memory:  4GB

Available Memory Slots:  0

Total Memory Slots:  2

Dual Channel Support:   Yes

CPU Manufacturer:  GenuineIntel

CPU Family:  Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz Model 7, Stepping 6

CPU Speed:  2266 MHz
- I have not had much problems with VISTA. The main problem that I have is that Outlook Webacess doesn't work properly with Internet Explorer 7. I can't search and send email from Internet Explorer 7. Firefox allows me to send. But I still can't search.
Office Desktop: HP - Compaq Pavilion a1547c Desktop/PC. Maximum Memory Capacity: 4096MB Currently Installed Memory: 1GB (DDR PC3200) Available Memory Slots: 2 Total Memory Slots: 4 Dual Channel Support: Yes CPU Manufacturer: AuthenticAMD CPU Family: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+ Model 7, Stepping 1 CPU Speed: 2405 MHz

In Terms of Computer Chip Speed (not taking into account multithreading/cores, Intel/AMD) - in order from slowest to fastest:

Staff computers
Photo Computer 1795 MHz (Dual Core)
Dr. Lee's XP Laptop 1828 MHz
Dr. Lee's Vista Laptop 2266 MHz (Dual Core)
Dr. Lee's Desktop 2405 MHz
Server 2992 MHz (Xeon, multithreading)
Dr. Wu's Desktop 3389 MHz

Links:

Pentium Dual Core

Dell PowerEdge Servers

We're not affiliated in any way with the Microsoft, or HP, or Cisco, or Dell, or 3Com. We use these products in our office (Modesto Plastic Surgery with Dr. Tammy Wu).

We have written another page regarding: computer programs for doctors and their offices.

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