1st I have to say my wife is Pregnant and I have to agree with Jeff on it scary.
But.
I am one of those people that have written software for a clinic. I used M$ Access to schedule all of the testing of blood samples and do reporting. This was too cool, it even faxed the results to the doctor. This was over 5 years ago. The reason I wrote it in M$ Access was they want it in M$ environment and would not want anything in a environment that was unknown (Linux). I told him I would do it but it would not last. After wrote it I started planning to wait for a crash and migrate to another tool when the company got sold. The database was at 300M when the company was sold and yes, it was slowing down and had problems but they loved it. The big company that purchase the little company wanted to buy my source code but I did not sale it because it would not handle it and I could not baby sit it on the scale they were on.
Now to modern day.
I am currently at a major research hospital in TN. (sorry I can not say my customers name) This place I am at has M$ all over the place but they are developing in RH Linux, Apple, and Solaris all over the place. This is a good thing I hope. A lot of the development is in RH to control DNA testing. I have been to many Med company in the last two years and they all do not develop in M$ but the desktops are M$.
Tom Margrave
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Self [mailto:jocknerd@mac.com]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:17 AM
To: twuug@twuug.org
Subject: [twuug] Scary stuff from wife's visit to doctor
My wife is 31 weeks pregnant and had to go to a medical lab this
morning to give a blood sample. She asked them when the lab results
would be done since her doctor is going to Baltimore for 4 days next
week and she was hoping he would know something before he left. The lab
technician informed her that their computer network was down because
they got a virus this week and they are at least three days behind
entering information.
Now, my guess is they are running a Windows network. This isn't a life
and death situation for my wife, but still this really concerns me.
When did it become acceptable to have networks go down for three days?
Especially at a medical center. I don't think I'm going to let this
just slide by. I think that's happened too much already. Its time to
hold someone accountable. Whether its the lab for choosing this network
or a "medical network consultant" for installing this network. I've
always joked about seeing Windows in hospitals. I don't think its too
funny anymore.
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Jeff Self
Apple OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) Powered by Unix, Styled by Apple
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