Putting RepliGo to use for your team
RepliGo comes in two flavours. The first costs money and allows the creation and reading of RepliGo documents. The second is free but only allows reading of the documents.
Your department should get a copy of the free reader for every user. They should get at least one copy of the creator program. In a small department, like the haematology department's team of six, one copy might be enough. The clinician who owns the copy would create RepliGo documents out of virtually any other documents that the rest of the team needs. For larger departments, more copies are necessary. This is particularly the case if the team's members work more independently of each others, such as the General Practice surgery with 11 clinicians who go on home visits and have different schedules. One copy for each member may well be necessary and certainly convenient.
Sharing a document with others is relatively easy. RepliGo's document format works perfectly well on Palm-compatibles, Pocket PCs and several other platforms. Unfortunately, documents destined for a Palm-compatible must have the suffix .pdb in their filename while those for a Pocket PC need .rgo. For a team that uses both Palm-compatible and Pocket PC machines, each document must have two copies to allow the two suffixes. This is one area that the software's developer, Cerience Corporation, can improve on in the future.
These copies can be shared through the web (such as a hospital's private local website), email, floppy discs, or beaming. For example you can download the RepliGo version of the NSF guidelines through these two links:
[Palm-compatible version] [Pocket PC version]
Beaming from one Palm-compatible device to another is easy, as is beaming from one Pocket PC to another. Unfortunately beaming from Pocket PC to Palm-compatible or vice-versa is difficult, especially because of the different suffixes. Again, this is an area that Cerience should work on in future releases.
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