Reply to post: Re: Why, exactly, do these things need outside connectivity in the first place?

Re: Why, exactly, do these things need outside connectivity in the first place?

The connectivity idea was to help to prevent dosage errors. Slap a barcode on the drug so that the machine know what it is, and can enforce upper and lower dosage limits. There had been cases where the human setting up previous machines couldn't tell the difference between milligrams and micrograms, and/or where the decimal point was.