Re:Ambulances turned away as computer virus infects medical ...
by CWuestefeld on Saturday December 10, 2011 @08:58PM
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Might I add the hospitals probably paid millions of dollars for these systems.
And in many cases, those systems were required in order to support the requirements for Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement. There is typically an entire department dedicated to producing the reports that the government requires.
Sure your doctor may be running around with an iPad doing medical diagnosis but the vast majority are running on antiquated systems interfacing with unmaintainable hodgepodge data stores.
Might I add the hospitals probably paid millions of dollars for these systems.