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The fact they run in hospitals doesn't mean it's a good thing... Hospitals were duped into using MS products. Today, this is a major plague in the health system of many countries few people realize the extent of. In short, the problem MS created for medical / hospital equipment is that by trying to ensure they control the software, they made the hospital staff incapable of using the software to their own benefit. Hospital research today is archaic in its practices compared to virtually any other field because of how it relies on Microsoft products. Usually, it's a bunch of people manually filling Excel spreadsheets and doing a lot of other things that would've been trivial to automate by hand. Hospital / medical equipment is not validated well by various bodies established to do that (eg. FDA or similar European bodies) because the technology is proprietary and validation, essentially, relies on companies submitting their internal research results to get the equipment approved. PACS and similar systems are designed and implemented by companies who don't understand how hospitals work, and aren't interested in learning that -- the typical enterprise model inspired and encouraged by the use of MS products, where deals are made between high-ranking managers w/o any attention to the actual needs of the personnel who are supposed to use the software. And this is again, because MS conditioned hospitals not to use open-source software, which also resulted in no internal talent / expertise growth. So, doctors in external clinics and even inside the hospital, even though connected by their computerized system, don't know how to use it well, or, sometimes systems lack important functionality. By bribing their way into medical system, MS committed the largest crime in its history, much larger than anything it's been taken to courts for. Countless lives have been lost or severely impacted because of MS profiteering. But nobody really talks about it because these numbers are hard to count. It would be very hard to sue them for this as this is too broad and hard to get concrete evidence of... but if you had ever interacted with the hospital computer systems from the inside, you'd see this plain as day. |