Comment Re:internet addiction and dependence (Score 2) 89
> Probably better to keep patient records off the internet anyway. All the computers in the hospital should be networked and all should have access to the database. So yes an intranet. The internet isn't required.
Hospital Helpdesk, First insurance is verified over the internet through the EMR, although it usually is done through an interface and not a website, Medical records from one location to another have to be done through the internet, as not everyone goes to a hospital in the same network as their normal doctor. Xrays might be done by a third party in the hospital which then has to be transmitted to the hospitals EMR system. Doctors have to remote in many times to do billing and transcribing, usually the EMR is accessible behind citrix and 2fa.
Yes less internet is good, but the amount of stuff nurses access that are external to the company, billing, medicare, other site EMR data, training, video conferencing with language interpreters.
However we made many changes after a breach last year from phishing, adding 2fa to outside logins, enabled bitlocker to go (for flashdrives) as default, and using management profiles for mobile devices incase they are lost/stolen they can be wiped