At risk of identifying myself, I work in this industry (or should I say, I work in the medical field) and yes... it's insane. And of course, you get that privileged peak behind the veil, you get to see how the sausage is made as it were.

It is truly humbling because there is no easy solution, there are no unified APIs; you couldn't use them even if there were, because your medical records are highly sensitive. So forget about poking around production to solve a bug, you've got to do it through observability.

You can't move fast and break things because your downtime will get the regulators involved, because peoples livelihoods are at stake. You will get official complaints through various official bodies who can and will sanction the business.

In short, it's not a fucking joke and it takes a lot more time and a lot more money to do something serious here, and for good reason.

Note that I'm not talking about low-key wearables like Fitbits that monitor your pulse, I'm talking about doctors, triage, etc.