samglass09

Health NZ adopted Snowflake. It was about costs/fancy tech. We have always had data centres. Nobody *needs* snowflake. They could have used Apache Spark.

Very little protections. The entire medical records of a significant percentage of the NZ population were stolen recently and put up for sale online. Zero consequences for the medical practices who adopted the hacked software.

Meanwhile they are pushing AI transcription and note taking solutions hard.

Patients are guilted into allowing the doctors to use it. I have gotten pushback when asked to have it turned off.

The messaging is that it all stays local. In reality it’s not and when I last looked it was running on Azure OpenAI in Australia.

I spoke to a practice nurse a few days ago to discuss this.

She said she didn’t think patients would care if they knew the data would be shipped off site. She said people’s problems are not that confidential and their heath data is probably online anyway so who cares.