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So a simple power outage or broken networking hardware would be enough to kill people in your hospital?…
There's good reason that hospitals have their own backup emergency generators. A blackout absolutely would kill people.
Yes, but they typically don’t just run the whole building, only vital stuff and emergency lighting.
If the system being cripple cost lives, that’s a failure of your procedures, systems, training, management and backups.
It shouldn’t take hours to override the system, why wasn’t someone on staff who was trained on the system? Why weren’t paper charts available sooner? That sounds more like negligence than a system causing an issue. If someone on staff was trained, it should have taken minutes to fix the issue.
If a crash like this cost lives, that’s your own negligence, not a computer glitches.