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Linux in hospitals?
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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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None of the hospitals I’ve worked at (in the US) have used Linux, and I’m pretty surprised some do! Given that we used Internet Explorer up until the very last second before it was not supported, I don’t know if any change would be welcomed, unless a hospital somehow started out with Linux. But at the end of the day, it would be about to e electronic health record, if it was supported or not… I don’t know if Epic, Cerner, or AllScripts do!
The hospital I was seemed to still be using Internet Explorer….
I wonder how the various software needs of hospitals would be with Wine? My guess would be that it wouldn’t be stable enough for them.
Equipment firmware has rigid stability constraints. Office software, if IE is good enough, a tested and unchanging version of Wine is good enough.
they are all moving to sas... browser-based, browser agnostic systems. everyone is. people have actually learned from the IE mistake.
not there arent a few holdouts.. nothing more painful than trying to bolt on new regulatory requirements to a 25 year old app. sigh