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You heard it here first - The Johns Hopkins Hospital. They would never admit their problems due to the culture, but I predict a devastating and irreversible bra

by jzig 4y ago

You heard it here first - The Johns Hopkins Hospital. They would never admit their problems due to the culture, but I predict a devastating and irreversible brain drain in the next two years.

reciprocity 4y ago
Could you please elaborate further?
- lvspiff 4y ago
  not OP but work in healthcare. The culture of leadership in healthcare is frustrating. It's very political with everyone having their own agendas and fiefdoms. Cap it off with ever changing Govt regulations and you end up with a never ending cycle of audits, crazy ideas, and projects that go no where because the vendors are so far behind they don't understand anything. For the last year I worked on a scheduling system that got absolutely nowhere, a million $ investment in surgery center equipment that was not compatible with our current software, and the always fun rotation of passwords on over 1000 servers in 3 months that were mostly manual because the vendors all charge for an SOW to do that (oh yeah this is a YEARLY activity).
  - aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
    > always fun rotation of passwords on over 1000 servers in 3 months that were mostly manual because the vendors all charge for an SOW to do that (oh yeah this is a YEARLY activity). Why do I smell Windows Server 2008?
    - TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
      NIST stopped recommending regular password rotation years ago. Why are mega corps still insisting on this? Security theater? Unknowledgable?
      - solarmist 4y ago
        Yes and trying to find a bargain on staff.
      - ornornor 4y ago
        “We’ve always done it this way so we’re not about to change”, or a customer somewhere has an audit checklist that mandates password rotations every 3 months. I know of people stuck with such a moronic password change policy, and the new password can’t be the same as the last five or whatever. So they change the password five times in a row so they can keep using the same password over and over. This kind of thing makes me so so so depressed about work. It’s overwhelmingly self inflicted suffering for no benefit, and it makes millions of people miserable for nothing.
      - jve 4y ago
        MS has their guidance also not recommending password cycling: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Microsoft_Password_Guidance-1.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... But he mentioned servers not users. If those are Windows Servers in AD env, LAPS exists: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=468...
  - TheCondor 4y ago
    MDs that don’t actually do doctoring tend to be very ineffective leaders and possibly just generally toxic. Not all, but there is a trend. I think it’s almost like how the best CEOs are a little sociopathic, something in med school or maybe the reason they go to med school makes them think they know everything and anything not medicine is trivial monkey work.

by jzig 4y ago

You heard it here first - The Johns Hopkins Hospital. They would never admit their problems due to the culture, but I predict a devastating and irreversible brain drain in the next two years.

reciprocity 4y ago

Could you please elaborate further?

lvspiff 4y ago
not OP but work in healthcare. The culture of leadership in healthcare is frustrating. It's very political with everyone having their own agendas and fiefdoms. Cap it off with ever changing Govt regulations and you end up with a never ending cycle of audits, crazy ideas, and projects that go no where because the vendors are so far behind they don't understand anything. For the last year I worked on a scheduling system that got absolutely nowhere, a million $ investment in surgery center equipment that was not compatible with our current software, and the always fun rotation of passwords on over 1000 servers in 3 months that were mostly manual because the vendors all charge for an SOW to do that (oh yeah this is a YEARLY activity).
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  > always fun rotation of passwords on over 1000 servers in 3 months that were mostly manual because the vendors all charge for an SOW to do that (oh yeah this is a YEARLY activity). Why do I smell Windows Server 2008?
  - TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
    NIST stopped recommending regular password rotation years ago. Why are mega corps still insisting on this? Security theater? Unknowledgable?
    - solarmist 4y ago
      Yes and trying to find a bargain on staff.
    - ornornor 4y ago
      “We’ve always done it this way so we’re not about to change”, or a customer somewhere has an audit checklist that mandates password rotations every 3 months. I know of people stuck with such a moronic password change policy, and the new password can’t be the same as the last five or whatever. So they change the password five times in a row so they can keep using the same password over and over. This kind of thing makes me so so so depressed about work. It’s overwhelmingly self inflicted suffering for no benefit, and it makes millions of people miserable for nothing.
    - jve 4y ago
      MS has their guidance also not recommending password cycling: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Microsoft_Password_Guidance-1.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... But he mentioned servers not users. If those are Windows Servers in AD env, LAPS exists: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=468...
- TheCondor 4y ago
  MDs that don’t actually do doctoring tend to be very ineffective leaders and possibly just generally toxic. Not all, but there is a trend. I think it’s almost like how the best CEOs are a little sociopathic, something in med school or maybe the reason they go to med school makes them think they know everything and anything not medicine is trivial monkey work.