What I believe Brian is suggesting is the following. It takes a lot longer explanation for everyone to get it I believe.
If you are in an office that needs a wireless connection to work in, but you want to insure you always have wired connectivity you would do the following:
1. You would have a computer hard wired to the server that would be able to run AC just like any other hard wired computer.
2. You would then use wireless tablets to connect via any remote solution (we will say LogMeIn for simplicity).
3. You would then NOT run the program on the desktop, you would run the program on the hard wired computer. Now, as Brian points out dramatically for effect :), if your laptop were to explode, the data would still be on your other computer, because that is where the AC program is running. You could then walk over to that computer and finish your note.
4. Of course, this opens your network up to even more security issues. And, we are assuming you have Internet access.
5. Plus, using LogMeIn, only one doctor could log into that computer at one time, so you would have to use RDP.
So, the configuration would look like:
Tablet ----> Hard-wired computer (via LogMeIn or RDP) --- Database (on server).
But, why not make it quicker and skip the entire LogMeIn and do the following:
Tablets ----> Database on server, i.e.
RUN THE PROGRAM OFF THE SERVER. SHARE IT OUT VIA SHORTCUTS OR MAPPING THE NETWORK DRIVE.
Now the problem with the latter two fixes is you now have lost control of features on your AC on your tablet. In other words, you would be using AC as it is set up on the wired host. So, you would have to have a separate hard wired computer for each doctor so they would be logged in as themselves on the hard wired computer.
This is even more of a problem if you run it off the server and is the reason I do not do it that way. It is also slower for some reason when running it off the server than when running the application from your desktop hard drive in RAM and accessing the database on the server. But, given that time lag, it would most likely still be faster than using the LogMeIn connection.
