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by unicornhose 1228 days ago
How are the computers so bad?? I don't know why, but it's personally embarrassing to me as a developer.
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Hospital IT systems are infamously horrible at maintaining computer systems. I worked in healthcare tech at one point and I remember back around 2016 we were still forced to support Internet Explorer for hospital systems that had simply never updated.
The person who buys them isn't the person who has to use them, and the procurement is done at too large and abstract a scale for requirements more complicated than checkboxes.