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by alwa 970 days ago
Of course, when a hospital’s IT systems go down, people do indeed have to endure it, but life does not always in fact go on [0]. Horses for courses, I guess.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/27/22696097/hospital-ransomw...

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Hospital IT systems failures are are mostly going to cause problems with scheduling, record-keeping, and billing.

By far, the most likely thing to kill you in a hospital is not the IT system but errors by the doctors and nurses. Or that you're too sick to save no matter what they do.