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by dicom_guy 1492 days ago
Yeah who owns a CD drive anymore. It should be a free web-based viewer that lets you login securely, manage temporary links to other providers, and download for offline use. It’s not that hard to build and the government could provide it but instead we’re stuck with expensive third party vendors.
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tveyben 1492 days ago
Which is several orders of a magnitude more expensive than just adding a CD-burner. Or use the pre-existing USB interface to write the files to a 5€ small memory stick (new as mentioned earlier)

Ditto for the complexity regarding the security.

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dicom_guy 1492 days ago
What about the marginal cost of each CD, a technicians time to burn it and the extra time for a patient to receive their images in a CD before they can share it with other providers? I went through this problem trying to get the X-rays for my grandma that got COVID.
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okl 1492 days ago
I'd rather prefer my data not be available on the web.
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Snowworm 1492 days ago
It already would be, they have to transfer the data between hospitals somehow. The only difference is that you will have access to it, not just the doctors.

The security depends entirely on the implementation though. I'm guessing that's why your concerned about it.

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makeitdouble 1492 days ago
How long did it take for your government to have a site with an up to date list of all the places doing co-vid tests ?

For me it took months to have a site, and it’s been stale and broken every time I checked.

Why should we trust it more to host such a critical service ?

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Max-q 1492 days ago
It took a few weeks, it work perfectly and I could book time for test. We also got a national EU Covid pass service where Covid tests and vaccines are show.

It takes me a couple of minutes to do my tax return and I can deliver every form to any government organization from one single portal. All my health information is stored on another single portal (same one where I find the Covid pass).

I don’t think the rule that all government software is bad is universally applicable.

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unionpivo 1492 days ago
Our country has that.

Not impressed with their security.

There are supposed to be no intrusions, but honestly the systems is so bad/old(1), that I am not sure they'd even notice.

1 It futures latest and greatest security practices ... from year 2000. Better than nothing, but inadequate nowadays.

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