What ’ s Holding Up the Healthcare IT Infrastructure?

Usually we do a Fun Friday entry, but today didn’t seem like a great day to do a Fun Friday.  Although, when I saw this image shared by Aaron Miri, I thought it was the perfect middle ground of something that’s eye opening and might give you something to think about as you head into the weekend. The world of #Healthcare #IT 🧑🏾‍💻 pic.twitter.com/wIMPsSJScn — Aaron Miri (@AaronMiri) June 22, 2022 There’s a lot of truth to this graphic in technology and more specifically in health IT.  It’s amazing how many legacy projects are still powering the internet as we know it.  What’s amazing to me is how resilient many of the internet designs have been throughout all the years. Of course, it does beg the question of what are some of the small projects that are still holding up the health IT world.  My guess is that every CIO can think about what it is for their organization.  It’s likely what keeps them up at night and they likely don’t have a good replacement solution.  Although, I bet it’s something different for every organization.  There’s only one person who knows how to support and maintain some of our legacy systems which we have to continue to maintain for compliance reasons (Shout out to all the legacy archiving vendors out there who can help with this). In the comments of Miri’s tweet someone suggested the project holding health IT up is MUMPS.  They’re not wrong.  It’s probably a ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Aaron Miri Health IT Infrastructure healthcare infrastructure MUMPS Pagers Source Type: blogs