Quick link: print label for setup checklist
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Windows Setup All Workstations
- Turn off Windows auto-update. This happens at the worst time!
- For simplicity turn off the Windows password for the volunteer clinic account. It is not needed. There is no data on these laptops.
Browser Setup All Workstations
We prefer the Google Chrome browser. Any browser with access the a PDF reader will work but Chrome has a nice built in PDF reader. Click here if Chrome is not installed. https://www.google.com/chrome/
- Set the home page to be your PaRIS website.
- Put an icon on the desktop.
- Turn off autofill in the browser. This tries to help you with addresses during registration and makes a real mess..
- Turn off saving passwords.
- Set Chrome as the default web browser.
Patient registration computers
The registration computers print patient labels on Dymo printers and need a driver. The Dymo LaserWriter 400 drivers are much smaller and work. But just in case here are both of them.
For these computers
- be sure to set the DYMO printer as the default printer.
- And set the default paper form to "30256 Shipping Label" on all the computers printing labels.
- If you see the patient labels printing really small you do not have the default form set to "30256". It has defaulted to address label size - "30252". This is a common mistake.
- Turn OFF Fit
to Page (this resizes the barcode and can break it). This is an option when printing PDFs and not a standard Windows printer option. If set on it messes up the scaling on the barcodes and they can't be read.
If you are printing the smaller lab labels (DYMO form #30330) make sure the dymo Window's printer preferences are set to ZOOM 100%, landscape mode, turn off Fit to Page.
If it also a good idea to set OFF windows updates and automatic updates of any kind. If you are on a slow WiFi connection these will drain a hotspot's data plan as well as slow everything down. This is difficult if you are on Windows 10 as they try to prevent disabling updates. The following page shows you how to set off updates on a "mettered connection" when on WiFi. You should definately do this. Also try to set off Java, Adobe, and virus checker updates so they don't come up during a clinic.
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/features/how-to-disable-windows-10-automatic-updates-728049
Data / Service entry computers
These computers need a bar code scanner to quickly read the patient labels. Inexpensive USB barcode scanners do not need drivers so just plug them in.
Paper records scanning computers
If you are using the ScanSnap IX500 paper scanners to store documents in the database install the software from the CD that came with the scanner or install this version if you don't have the CDs:
ScanSnap IX500:
WinSSInstiX500WW1.exe
Any scanner that turns paper into PDF files will work. Things are fastest if the software also includes an OCR scan of the documents as they are scanned but if it doesn't PaRIS will run the OCR scan on the server itself.
Click here to view the ScanSnap IX500 setup procedure for PaRIS:
ScanSnap Setup Procedure
Click here for the ScanSnap IX500 cleaning and maintenance procedure:
ix500-cleaning-instructions