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It is not on the net, but it is on a LAN that has a firewall somewhere that is leaky.

This because it is cheaper in the short run to string a single physical network and then use vlans etc to attempt to keep medical stuff from talking to accounting or the visitors WiFi.

This so a single overworked nurse can monitor a number of patients from a bank of monitors hooked to a thin client near the ward entrance.

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Then it seems to me that more nurses and less dependence on fragile technology is a better option. Costs can be economized by many other methods. Labor is something that should be the last thing to pare down.

Technology, done right, can be more reliable than humans.

But in this instance the weighting is one done by beancounters looking at salaries as an ongoing expense, while tech is an investment that pays itself back the longer it can be used without further expences.

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