Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

[Shane Ronan <shane () ronan-online com>]

 Because the hospitals don't own the machines and the companies that do,
charge the hospital per x-ray. The hospitals moved to this model to reduce
their costs during "quiet" periods. And by doing so, put their patients in
jeopardy.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 2:07 PM Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:

> > On Mar 17, 2020, at 02:20 , Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 16/Mar/20 16:54, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> >
> > > I recently had to reschedule an X-ray because the license manager for
> the X-ray machine was acting up.  I don’t think people have a grasp for how
> much of the medical infrastructure no longer works when the Internet is
> down.
> > I get this, to some extent. But also, there is a reason hospitals,
> > airports and military installations are either put on special power
> > grids or invest plenty of money in backup power.
>
> I don’t get this… X-Ray machines (and other critical medical equipment)
> should operate in a fail-safe mode where a license screw up doesn’t prevent
> the machine from operating.
>
> If the hospital hasn’t paid up, find a way to go after the hospital, but
> don’t kill patients to collect your fee.
>
> > If an x-ray machine won't work because the Internet is down, I'm not
> > sure that is responsible. As inefficient as it may be to have a license
> > server on-prem if there is an option to check against one in the public
> > cloud, for a medical use-case, that would make more sense to me.
>
> Why should there be a license server at all? Why should an X-ray machine
> have an external dependency like that in the first place, even if it’s a
> local server?
>
> Owen