Running the IT systems. It's not as bad as they make out - it's worse. I spent the last week trying to get NT4 running on a brand new laptop, because GE refuse to support anything else for their system. That'd be NT4, which is now unsupported by Microsoft.
Pretty much all of our machines (can't speak for others) that run the X-rays, MRI, ultrasounds, etc.. are NOT running windows. Generally, it's unix stuff that I try not to touch (breaking million dollar equipment looks bad on the CV). But the backend stuff, servers, doctor's viewing workstations, runs on Windows. This is what the vendor specifies, and if we deviate, we're unsupported. Bear in mind, this is for a very small practice - as things scale up, the vendors advocate switching to large, and non-cheap UNIX boxes...
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Running the IT systems. It's not as bad as they make out - it's worse. I spent the last week trying to get NT4 running on a brand new laptop, because GE refuse to support anything else for their system. That'd be NT4, which is now unsupported by Microsoft.
Pretty much all of our machines (can't speak for others) that run the X-rays, MRI, ultrasounds, etc.. are NOT running windows. Generally, it's unix stuff that I try not to touch (breaking million dollar equipment looks bad on the CV). But the backend stuff, servers, doctor's viewing workstations, runs on Windows. This is what the vendor specifies, and if we deviate, we're unsupported. Bear in mind, this is for a very small practice - as things scale up, the vendors advocate switching to large, and non-cheap UNIX boxes...