Re: The NHS
Presumably, this means that you discontinued new product development using embedded Windows a decade ..newer Linux/OpenBSD/FreeRTOS
Windows embedded is no longer available, there is a windows LTS but we are waiting to find out if it is approved. You can buy medical grade RTOS but ours is a software product for doctors offices. We could insist that each doctor buys a VME crate running VxWorks but there might be some market pushback.
We started an earlier product on Linux and that is fine with the FDA - but you they treat open source as if it was your product So you are responsible for all testing / security / updates of the entire OS. Plus all the production documentation tracking every source file used to build it all.
The problem is that the regulators (especially the FDA) have a drug mindset . Every chemical in the drug has to be traceable and any change in the formula requires new tests. So change an element of the GUI and you need to repeat user trials where you have to have 20 Consultant Radiologists test it to show that the safety and effectiveness wasn't changed.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
