Reply to post: Re: The root cause for the NHS is software that won't run on anything but XP.

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Re: The root cause for the NHS is software that won't run on anything but XP.

As for "Our CT/MI/Ultrasound/Kirlian aura machine uses an XP UI" SFW? How much network access does that thing need and what business does the network have dropping stuff on its local storage?

It needs network access so that when the car crash victim has been CT scanned, and wheeled back up to intensive care, the surgeons can see the scans as well as the patient, and their entire record of medical history. Including what drug intolerances they have, what blood thinning and anti-clot medication they are on etc.

Medical care is enormously improved by proper networked IT.

They are slowly getting there. This is a wakeup call to ensure that they also pay attention to security.

At the root cause of this is the use of the file sharing paradigm as a substitute for e.g. a remote database access paradigm.

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