Home Forums Suggestions for exam rooms pcs and printers

Have 6 exam rooms. What Do you guys recommend for the rooms? Desktop, laptop, all in ones? What specs?
Do I need 6 printers for printing controlled rx? Is one enough?
How about for printing summaries and what not?

I use HP all in ones - cost less than 500 each and essentially become throw away with current technology. I use one printer out front to do controlled substances and summaries - my exam rooms do not have that much room and my state requires special paper for all scrips - our state board actually has advised me that I must have a scanned copy of all Schedule II's in the chart and cannot just use history of scrip from AC (I think it is dumb but comply - I print on regular paper, copy onto special paper and staff scans back in original - I know work flow sounds clunky but works for me).

As far as in exam rooms - you will get lots of different answers but I have never liked keyboards on laptops so I have always used desktops (small form) or all in ones. Cheap and easy to replace if you develop problems.

I have 3 exam rooms linked to my private desk as a network. The network computer runs AC on a solid state drive. In the exam rooms I would get a cheap quadcore running XP, but preferrably something higher. I have 1 xp machine and it is the slowest of the bunch. Make sure you have enough ram in the exam rooms or they will run slow. I wired my exam rooms because if the internet signal drops your prescription writer gets mad. I have printers in each exam room. Each computer is now linked to UPDOX so I can send letters, etc on the fly. It works for me.

We have tiny (little larger than a deck of cards) thin clients with monitor and USB mouse/USB keyboard, RDP to a term-server running on a highend i7 with 16 GB. That term server connects to the Windows 2003 AC server (going to some new version of Windows Server "real soon now") + SSD's.
These thin clients are very fast, as all the heavy lifting is on the I7 Term-server.
Only need 1 Rx printer. we wet sign and fax, never hand to patients, so don't use tamper proof paper and dedicated Rx printers,

We use high powered i5-3550 compact desktops with 22" touchscreens hardwired to a gigabit switch. There is a mouse and keyboard, but the screen is also touch capable, but it doesn't seem very useful to have touchscreens to be honest. Printers are networked and near the front so the patient can get what they need on their way out.