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by logicrook
3779 days ago
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Hospital equipment is a sector where we need to push strongly for open solutions.
Besides their own security, they are putting people's life in danger.
An informed citizen should have a way to check the running software and that the equipment is working properly. An example is X-ray equipment. In some cases, patients have been exposed to strong doses of radiations because of malfunctioning equipment for more than 1O years. Nobody checked. And then you add the risk of hacking. |
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It's a sector where there needs to be a push for software/hardware quality, period! One of my former coworkers from years ago used to write software for medical equipment. The software ran on the cheapest Windows boards the company could find. There was no standardization apart from window dressing. Attitude of management was to just get it out the door, and it would be fine.