ASD/MediTrac

12523 LISIANTHUS
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78253
tel: 210-401-1802

e-mail: info@gitrac.com

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Recommended Hardware and Software Configuration

Q. Does GI-Trac™ limit the user to certain types of hardware?  A. No, Akron Systems Development provides the GI-Trac™ and GI-Image™ software and image capture cards required.  You may obtain from the best sources in your area the hardware and support for that hardware that is most convenient and practical for your purposes.  We will gladly advise you as to which hardware specification and other system interfaces that would benefit you in your particular situation, taking into consideration what equipment you already have in place.  Queries into the system can determine productivity, cost accounting, performance monitoring, and using the HL7 and DICOM standards we can provide you with interfaces to your patients clinical and administrative systems.

Q. What is the recommended configuration for a large volume of patients?  A. The recommended configuration is mainly based on the requirements of the other hospital applications that you will be running at the same computers.  GI-Trac™ is a high performance, very efficiently designed system that puts very little burden on your PC and network infrastructure.  GI-Trac™ and GI-Image™ are also mission critical.

Q. What is the recommended configuration for a growing facility?  A.  Server configurations can be designed with a clustering system in mind, for maximum up-time, three-tier storage subsystems (RAID-5, OPTICAL STORAGE AND DLT), that will accommodate your needs now and into the future.  Server options like hot swapable, dual redundant power supplies and server NICs, HD controllers, are quite common and are offered from a variety of vendors today with 7x24 support.  As you can see, your server and client hardware, redundancy and disaster recovery options are mainly limited by your budget constrains.  ASD has chosen to provide the best service to the user by its software (even though we are able to quote to you a complete hardware configuration if desired).

Q.  How will this run under an NT 4.0 system?  A.  GI-Trac and GI-Image will run in a native 32 bit environment (unlike other GI software from other vendors), under NT 4.0

Q. How does the system support redundancy?  A.  A recommended cost effective system (again, by any needs of GI-Trac but by your own internal standards and specifications) at this time, may have the following specifications:

• Pentium 200 MHz
• 64Mb of Ram
• 2 GB HD
• 15-17" monitor based on space requirements
• UPS (uninteruptable power supply)
• Windows NT 4.0 Workstation

Support Questions

A. Regular preventive maintenance is handled via Wizards that makes it easy even for a novice to provide maintenance to the back–-end SQL database.  Of course we recommend a typical Monday-Friday 1 and Friday 2 backup procedures with storage of Friday tapes off-site (just to be safe).