Thin Clients in HealthCareDefinitions

• “Fat Client” - a dedicated workstation or software application (or both) with single purpose

• Thin Client - an application, usually network based which can run on many workstations

• WWW browser delivered applications (eg. databases, CGI-based forms, applications, etc…)

• Internet Business (ITN, Amazon.com, etc…)

• Download sites for software upgrades

• Generally, Internet delivered applications are all TCs.

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