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by HeyLaughingBoy 4438 days ago
I agree. I led a team that added network connectivity to one of our high-value medical instruments and one of the highest hurdles to cross wasn't technical: it was getting the hospitals' IT departments to buy in. They are rightfully paranoid about anything connected to their network. Both for the security of the device itself (it stores thousands of patient test records) and the possibility of it being hostile to the rest of the network.

tl;dr: Buyers may not care, but hospital IT certainly does.