[akira2501]

That's why there's a sharpie in the first aid kit. If you're out of stuff to write on you can just write on the patient.

More seriously, we need better purpose build medical computing equipment, that runs on it's own OS, and only has outbound network connectivity for updating other systems.

I also think of things like the old school "check list boards" that used to be literally built into the yolk of the airplane they were made for.

[xp84]

I’m afraid the profitability calculation shifted it in favor of off-the-shelf OS a long time ago. I agree with you, though, that a general purpose OS has way too much crap that isn’t needed in a situation like this.

[CydeWeys]

> That's why there's a sharpie in the first aid kit.

That doesn't help when the system goes down and you lose the record of all medications administered prior to having to switch over to the Sharpie.