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I'm not seeing anything particularly insightful in regards to Chaos Engineering with Healthcare. None of the unique challenges or strengths in the Healthcare do

I'm not seeing anything particularly insightful in regards to Chaos Engineering with Healthcare. None of the unique challenges or strengths in the Healthcare domain are covered. Few industries have the baked-in resilience to systems failures that the Healthcare industry possess. EMR down? Move to paper for arrivals. MPI offline? Here are some pre-allocated IDs and paper forms to fill out. Healthcare providers have a different measure for criticality. Merely slow, merely down - these can increase patient or financial risk, but they are generally manageable in the frame of reference of an outage. There are always manual workflows for these. Corruption of a handful of patient records due to an interpretation of an obscure standard? That is a major risk and will unleash real chaos.

devin 6y ago
Agreed. What I was more interested in hearing about was some sort of approach to deidentification of PHI in lower environments and synthetic traffic consisting of same.
pc86 6y ago
I've worked at a private healthcare company for the past 2 years, and worked at a public healthcare company for several years earlier in my career. Coming from e-commerce, consulting, and logistics where downtime === lose revenue, it's refreshing how many times I've heard "X is down but it's not affecting patient care so is not an emergency."