I'm going to be opening a doctor's office, with a computer system run off a server in the office. I'd like to be able to access the system remotely when I'm sitting at home, or even in a coffee shop through their wireless network.
I have 2 questions:
1) How do I best set up the access itself? I have been advised that the Windows remote desktop is the most economical approach to be able to get into my system, but I'm concerned that it might be slow. I've been advised to try GoToMyPC as well, but this would probably be slower than I'd like. Currently, I access the computer where I work using VPN and Citrix (they're both involved, but I don't understand which does what, or even what they are really). I was told that this would cost me about $5000 in my new practice, which might be more than I'd want to spend.2) Is it possible to have security when sitting in a public place using an unsecured network? It seems to me that such a thing is possible if the system encrypts at the server and decrypts at my laptop and vice versa. That way anybody capturing my transmissions on the unsecured wireless network would just get encoded data. Does such a thing exist?
Thanks for any help you can provide. --Matt