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Not certified I guess. Remember, medicine. :-) In practice, VMs on PCs for non-technical personnel are a major pain. All kinds of stuff breaks in curious ways
by kaliszad 5y ago
Not certified I guess. Remember, medicine. :-)
In practice, VMs on PCs for non-technical personnel are a major pain. All kinds of stuff breaks in curious ways e.g. the pass-through of the protocol or the specific interface might not work reliably, there is a custom setup to support, some pop-up causes the windows to overlap in a way that makes it hard for the medical personnel to get going quickly yadayada. Yes, you can do snapshots and other stuff.
Also, the technicians setting this up are usually not trained in IT DevOps/ broad sysadmin tasks so much as in the setup of special medical devices. They also tend to cost a small fortune, because again, they are certified to work on those machines costing on the order $100000 when used and multiple that when new and there might be a handful of them for the whole region. In this particular case, as a patient you also don't want more x-rays than you absolutely need to get. Doing a panoramic x-ray multiple times because e.g. of some software failure could breach some daily/ monthly whatever irradiation limits so you would need another appointment etc. Not something you want to go through as a responsible doctor because of some custom setup.
I get it, I am also enthusiastic about Windows never touching bare metal if at all possible for long running professional stuff precisely because of snapshots and e.g. the possibility to cut the network remotely and bring it back up if needed. But I also come in contact with non-technical folks that don't want to risk stuff, deal with more stuff than they already deal with etc. I respect that, it is an approach that works for them.