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It's essentially a device for automatic delivery of pain killers when the patient presses a button. Why on earth would such device even require network connecti
by vesinisa 11y ago
It's essentially a device for automatic delivery of pain killers when the patient presses a button. Why on earth would such device even require network connectivity? They advertise "wireless capabilities for remote drug library update". But "wireless capability" is a whole new engineering domain, and the manufacturer seems to have failed to even begin to address it properly.
- ryanmarsh 11y agoJust because you cannot envision a particular use case does not mean that it is not a valuable one. Fist off a large hospital will have drugs that are "formulary", meaning drugs doctors are allowed to prescribe and the in-house pharmacy fill. These lists need to be updated, imagine you have thousands of these pumps on premises. Now imagine you also have to do inventory management. Now imagine you have these pumps wired in with your nurse calling system (for when infusion is complete or the device is empty). Edit: usually you pick the drug from a list on the interface when programming it. I'm not familiar with this pump but I've used many like it.
- forgottenpass 11y agoWhy on earth would such device even require network connectivity? Convenience features sell. It looks like these devices might just push down delivery limits over the network, but the connectivity of medical devices is in the process of exploding. The market forces for software in general don't magically not apply to medical software/devices. Of all the software out there that sends telemetry back to base, medical devices are probably one of the easiest to justify and least morally dubious types of user monitoring around.