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Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down
CurtMonash writes "The Indianapolis Star reports that Tuesday Morning, Methodist Hospital turned away patients in ambulances, for the first time in its 100-plus history. Why? Because the electronic health records (EHR) system had gone down the prior afternoon — due to a power surge — and the backlog of paperwork was no longer tolerable.
If you think about that story, it has a couple of disturbing aspects. Clearly the investment in or design of high availability, surge protection, etc. were sadly lacking. But even leaving that aside — why do problems with paperwork make it necessary to turn away patients?
Maybe the latter is OK, since there obviously were other, more smoothly running hospitals to send the patient to. Still, the whole story should be held up as a cautionary tale for hospitals and IT suppliers everywhere."
I've been waiting for this news for years. Computers that perform fellatio? YES!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
call me when your computer can wear a tight skirt and make me a cup of coffee...
I'm sure I could jerry-rig an espresso machine to my computer, and a tight skirt would merely be a matter of alteration to fit the dimensions...
Ezekiel 23:20
But can you get it to bend over and pick up those files you dropped again...
That's called a "personal assistant". Because you really can't call it a "secretary" if she can't spell or touch type.
Here's the miniskirt. Here's the coffee. If you're looking for something else sometimes provided by secretaries, you'll have to look elsewhere.
The computer asks "Cancel or Allow?"
So, what you're saying is that a Mac isn't a computer?
Slashdot, Slashdot, home to so many misogynists :(
Really? I never saw him mention women once in that post. Which raises a far more disturbing thought...
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