Need ideas for a hospital entry control kiosk
Posted: Thu 18 Mar 2010, 22:48
Hi, Everyone!
Great to be here. I'm a new puppy user like probably many of you and also now a windows refugee. Learned about puppy while looking for a solution to the "black screen of death" and blank screen with just a blinking cursor.
Someone in one of the help threads mentioned puppy. Installed it to help with that...did real well dual booting with windows 7....decided to get fancy and shrink my windows 7 partition using gparted and lost my ability to dual boot. (Probably now a blessing in disguise)
in this last month (Since February 18th or so) I've learned how to use almost everything (my favourite programs) and then some and find the thought of going back to microsoft products disturbing.
Anyway, My boss has tasked me with setting up an internet kiosk at the hospital where I work which will be used as a way of communicating with visitors wanting to gain entry to a secured unit (the Women's Center aka L&D or Labor and Deliver)
The way its supposed to work from what my boss told me is similiar to the kiosk system that Verizon uses in their stores. I'm not familiar with this...never seen it, don't think I need to.
The concept I understand; the method is what I'm working on.
We already have in place a videophone at the main entrance to the unit called an Aiphone. This allows for two-way communication between visitors and Public Safety. Public safety have both audio + video while visitors get audio only.
Sometimes there is difficulty hearing people over the video phone and occassionally language barriers where the persons at opposite ends don't always speak the same language or have limited english.
The kiosk Idea was presented by my boss and a colleague to be a way of making our Women's Center unit more secure. Essentially the person needs the ability to type in who they want to see. Public Safety then looks up the patients info on another software program to determine if they are on the unit or not. If they are there, Public Safety presses a button that unlocks the main entrance for five seconds to allow a person to get in.
I think that's as simple as it gets.
From the description my colleague gave he wanted to have a digital display setup over the main entrance to L&D that would display when a person waiting could visit. Sometimes visitors can't always go in for various reasons and have to wait...by using some type of display (like one of those long rectangular things with the programmable red led displays) this could be accomplished.
It seems like it would add a lot more work to the job than is necessary by overcomplicating things with extra steps and processes but the powers-that-be who are in charge want Public Safety to verify every visitor to the unit remotely.
I'm open to any thoughts, suggestions or ideas.
I've already considered modifying a webscript to use similiar to a customised version of phpbb. I've got example on my local hd...matter of fact I'd appreciate it if any of you could access that page and offer ideas.
It's located here:
[link removed]
It's only accessible whenever I'm online and my computer is on and booted into Lighthouse Puppy 4.31
I'll try to leave it up as much as possible. I also considered maybe keeping the front page of that bbs and incorporating a chat script into....we will have to run it locally on a private network at the hospital....i've installed an irc server on this (homepc) that I'm using for testing.
I could use much help with this. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Other ideas I wanted to add to that default page would be an option to enable the visitors and Public Safety to speak to each other via a webcam with skype or some other voip preferable free client but also something that can be run privately as it needs to be an inhouse service for HIPPA (privacy) violations not to occur.
So only works through our hospital network on private ip.
The webserver and the irc we already know we can do...not sure about the voip...not sure what I'll do about the Aiphone either..doesn't seem like we'll need both.
Incidentally we're going to use an upgrade videogame console I saw mentioned else where to serve as the shell for the kiosk...would love to incorporate the video camera, voip, irc and static webpage similiar to the initial layout of the test forum in the link mentioned above all into one nice cohesive unit.
What do you guys/gals think? Please tell me.
Awaiting some input.
-tirdil
Great to be here. I'm a new puppy user like probably many of you and also now a windows refugee. Learned about puppy while looking for a solution to the "black screen of death" and blank screen with just a blinking cursor.
Someone in one of the help threads mentioned puppy. Installed it to help with that...did real well dual booting with windows 7....decided to get fancy and shrink my windows 7 partition using gparted and lost my ability to dual boot. (Probably now a blessing in disguise)
in this last month (Since February 18th or so) I've learned how to use almost everything (my favourite programs) and then some and find the thought of going back to microsoft products disturbing.
Anyway, My boss has tasked me with setting up an internet kiosk at the hospital where I work which will be used as a way of communicating with visitors wanting to gain entry to a secured unit (the Women's Center aka L&D or Labor and Deliver)
The way its supposed to work from what my boss told me is similiar to the kiosk system that Verizon uses in their stores. I'm not familiar with this...never seen it, don't think I need to.
The concept I understand; the method is what I'm working on.
We already have in place a videophone at the main entrance to the unit called an Aiphone. This allows for two-way communication between visitors and Public Safety. Public safety have both audio + video while visitors get audio only.
Sometimes there is difficulty hearing people over the video phone and occassionally language barriers where the persons at opposite ends don't always speak the same language or have limited english.
The kiosk Idea was presented by my boss and a colleague to be a way of making our Women's Center unit more secure. Essentially the person needs the ability to type in who they want to see. Public Safety then looks up the patients info on another software program to determine if they are on the unit or not. If they are there, Public Safety presses a button that unlocks the main entrance for five seconds to allow a person to get in.
I think that's as simple as it gets.
From the description my colleague gave he wanted to have a digital display setup over the main entrance to L&D that would display when a person waiting could visit. Sometimes visitors can't always go in for various reasons and have to wait...by using some type of display (like one of those long rectangular things with the programmable red led displays) this could be accomplished.
It seems like it would add a lot more work to the job than is necessary by overcomplicating things with extra steps and processes but the powers-that-be who are in charge want Public Safety to verify every visitor to the unit remotely.
I'm open to any thoughts, suggestions or ideas.
I've already considered modifying a webscript to use similiar to a customised version of phpbb. I've got example on my local hd...matter of fact I'd appreciate it if any of you could access that page and offer ideas.
It's located here:
[link removed]
It's only accessible whenever I'm online and my computer is on and booted into Lighthouse Puppy 4.31
I'll try to leave it up as much as possible. I also considered maybe keeping the front page of that bbs and incorporating a chat script into....we will have to run it locally on a private network at the hospital....i've installed an irc server on this (homepc) that I'm using for testing.
I could use much help with this. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Other ideas I wanted to add to that default page would be an option to enable the visitors and Public Safety to speak to each other via a webcam with skype or some other voip preferable free client but also something that can be run privately as it needs to be an inhouse service for HIPPA (privacy) violations not to occur.
So only works through our hospital network on private ip.
The webserver and the irc we already know we can do...not sure about the voip...not sure what I'll do about the Aiphone either..doesn't seem like we'll need both.
Incidentally we're going to use an upgrade videogame console I saw mentioned else where to serve as the shell for the kiosk...would love to incorporate the video camera, voip, irc and static webpage similiar to the initial layout of the test forum in the link mentioned above all into one nice cohesive unit.
What do you guys/gals think? Please tell me.
Awaiting some input.
-tirdil