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Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks
From: Shane Ronan <shane () ronan-online com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:26:37 -0400
Because the hospitals don't own the machines and the companies that do, charge the hospital per x-ray. The hospitals moved to this model to reduce their costs during "quiet" periods. And by doing so, put their patients in jeopardy. On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 2:07 PM Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
On Mar 17, 2020, at 02:20 , Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote: On 16/Mar/20 16:54, Carsten Bormann wrote:I recently had to reschedule an X-ray because the license manager forthe X-ray machine was acting up. I don’t think people have a grasp for how much of the medical infrastructure no longer works when the Internet is down.I get this, to some extent. But also, there is a reason hospitals, airports and military installations are either put on special power grids or invest plenty of money in backup power.I don’t get this… X-Ray machines (and other critical medical equipment) should operate in a fail-safe mode where a license screw up doesn’t prevent the machine from operating. If the hospital hasn’t paid up, find a way to go after the hospital, but don’t kill patients to collect your fee.If an x-ray machine won't work because the Internet is down, I'm not sure that is responsible. As inefficient as it may be to have a license server on-prem if there is an option to check against one in the public cloud, for a medical use-case, that would make more sense to me.Why should there be a license server at all? Why should an X-ray machine have an external dependency like that in the first place, even if it’s a local server? Owen
Current thread:
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks, (continued)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Seth Mattinen (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Tom Beecher (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Rich Kulawiec (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Dan White (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Blake Hudson (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Dan White (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Alexandre Petrescu (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Owen DeLong (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Shane Ronan (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Emille Blanc (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Jeff Shultz (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Tom Beecher (Mar 16)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Livingood, Jason (Mar 16)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Christian (Mar 17)