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Reading more into the story - the hospital became a hostage to its own IT system. Basically they can not provide emergency services. Somehow I think it is a pro
by FpUser 6y ago
Reading more into the story - the hospital became a hostage to its own IT system. Basically they can not provide emergency services. Somehow I think it is a problem on its own. I do not have enough info but we are becoming more and more dependent on IT systems and up to what point? Are there any limits? Those systems are fragile...
- jmole 6y agoThats the scary part to me. You're having a heart attack, but the computer's not working. So now we can't treat you. This is not IT anymore, this is in medical device territory. When you rely on a computer to send a medicine order to a hospital pharmacy, and you can't get drugs without it – that's a critical life support device at that point. If you can't administer medicine to a PT without scanning the barcode first, that's a critical life support device.