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I hate to stay late at the office finishing chartes!!! I was considering syncing, but I'm so afraid that my work would get lost or something would mess up. Gotomypc looks like a really easy way to work from home.....and maybe even nursing home if they have connections. Can anyone give me feedback on their use of this program? Thanks.....

GotomyPC cost money.
LOGMEIN is free.
Been using LOGMEIN for two years.
Never never have had problems.
I have worked on my chart from a shopping mall, swimming pool, during conferences, the hospital, and many other unusual places.

Peggy,

Roy is completely correct. I have used GoToMyPC, and it works fine, but it costs. LogMeIn is free. There is a LogMeIn Pro, but I have yet to figure out why that is so much better. LogMeIn also has more features. Just check out http://logmein.com

You also have a feature called Remote Desktop Connection if you are using XP. This, of course, is also free and fairly simple to set up. This works best if you are looking for home to office only. The other 3rd party programs allow you to log in to your office computer from anywhere with Internet connectivity such as Seattle or Japan or wherever.

Roy & Bert,
I saw the free standard Logmein stuff. But I was also checking out the Hamachi that comes both free and pro for a multi user VPN in a small P2P setup like ours, so instead of just controling the desktop you can actually be back on your own network with your own client laptop. That looked pretty cool to me. Kind of solves a number of the issues I was thinking about I would think. Roy which one are you using and why did you choose what you did? Are you using the remote desktop type one or the VPN one? Thanks...
Paul

I like Logmein rather than Hamachi product because (if my understanding of how it works is correct) Logmein takes up very little bandwidth. I don't like to leave traces of what I am doing on other computers. I don't really want to be part of the network but just virtually hijack my computer on the network. In otherword, the only thing that Logmein does is send screenshots to your offsite computer and sending back keyboard instruction to your computer. There is no files or digital information going back and forth except for the encrypted screenshot images. Thus, nothing is really left behind on the hospital computer or elsewhere. (Correct me if I am giving incorrect information).

I use Logmein Pro. It allows to synchronize printer, so, for example, I can access my office records from the hospital and print H&P on the hospital's printer. I also have more than 1 office computer accessed through logmein. Logmein pro offer a package 5 computers for $190 per year or so (of cource, everytrhing is a business expence). That way I can, for example, upgrade Amazing charts on my frontdesk and nurse computers during weekend without going to the office.

I have not had a need for the Pro version. I use Logmein to send a FAX through the server to a fax machine, or I print an E-mail to myself and then print that e-mail to the hospital. I'm able to compile an entire hospital order using hospital forms via FAX from my home computer connecting to my business computer which in turn access the hospital computer. I can update AC remotely as well. Pretty nifty.

You guys are great! Thanks so much.. This is really a helpful EMR system.

Roy,

It's my understanding that you can remotely share files between the host and the remote computer.

You can share files in Logmein, but only in the pro version. I have most of my computers hooked into the free version with 1 in each office as a pro computer. I use the free version if I need to do some background tech work or check on some problem from the staff. I use the pro to log in from the hospital to print H&Ps or such.

Nice that everyone figured out Logmein is the way to go. Been using it for years. But can AC sync databases or not? Then you wont even need Logmein. I have multiple Doctors and we all can't connect to Logmein on the same computer at the same time. So .....if we could somehow sync when I get back to the office. It would be eliminating the extra step. And when I am @ the ER I dont have to hunt for Internet. I could just use my laptop without internet connection.

Or is the technology not there?

Todd Scott

As I asked earlier, what about their VPN option, have you tried that? I'm very curious about that one myself. So with standard logmein, you guys can only get in one at a time if I understand you correctly? I'm not sure at all, but if you all had separate desktop units at the office, could each of you ride your own respective desktop from your off-site laptops??? Is that possible, a solutions???

But again I'd like to know more about their VPN because I think that would solve that problem for you and I too am looking for a way to allow more than one person at a time to have access from off site. As for Sync supposedly it's in there now. As a matter of fact I was one of the folks really asking for it, for just the type of reasons you have brought up. The few posts about it have not had any takers on trying it out and telling the group what they had learned so far. What is your relationship with AC tech support like? That might be the way to go if you are feeling frisky enough to try the Sync feature....

Let us know what you learn, OK? Thanks.

Todd!

Hi. Thanks for posting. It's a good question, but a few of us have been wondering what your nick was about.

Welcome to AC.

Hi gang,

We use UltraVNC here. Can either connect through a web interface or with a VNC viewer, to remote control a desktop, and we use old laptops as compute servers. WAY better throughput than a VPN, and if the VPN crashes, no data loss. We currently have three available remote connections, and the throughput is good. Remote printing is with internet tunneling router to router, also without problems.

I've heard sync is working, but honestly I don't trust it.

Regards,

V.