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There's only one other network that connects all healthcare providers, POTS. Which is why fax was/is popular in the healthcare space for the longest time. If
by kube-system 2y ago
There's only one other network that connects all healthcare providers, POTS. Which is why fax was/is popular in the healthcare space for the longest time.
If you're suggesting that the hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers just in the US all get together and lease some dark fiber -- there's zero chance that happens.
Besides, doctors routinely use resources on the public internet.
- throw0101a 2y ago> If you're suggesting that the hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers just in the US all get together and lease some dark fiber -- there's zero chance that happens. I am suggesting that not all computers in a hospital need to have an Internet-accessible connection. Nor even all applications on a PC need to be Internet-accessible: if you're using Windows you can have an application icon that does not launch a program locally, but rather initiates an RDP session to a terminal server (TS) and runs the program there, while the app window is displayed locally (like X11 forwarding). The (TS) server is dual-homed so the app that runs there can (e.g.) connect to patient records network, but the local PC that is just being used as a display is not on that sensitive network.
- kube-system 2y agoAh, well, this is already done in many places. It doesn't prevent malware from spreading, though. The latest malware is good at moving horizontally.