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by dogmatism 694 days ago
no money for that

there are backup paper processes, but they start fresh when the systems go down

If it was printing paper in case of downtime 24/7, it would be massive wasteage for the 99% of time system is up

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A good system is resilient. Paper process could take over when system is down. Form my understanding healthcare systems undergo recurrent outages for various reasons.