[athenot]

VPN may sound archaic to those outside of health, but there are quite a few intra- and inter-hospital links that rely on VPN. Even with hospital SaaS vendors, it's not uncommon.

It's not like surgery robots move around the network and come online at unexpected locations. Those installations are planned ahead and the IT considerations are part of that deployment. Also, encryption is important but so is available bandwidth and bandwidth quality: a jittery link could be as dangerous as a compromised one.