A puff-piece about Epic Systems.
It’s possible that the Data General minicomputers from long ago shown in the video were running MUMPS-dialect operating systems that I had custom-assembled in Cambridge, Massachusetts for Epic Systems when they were still in Madison. That receipt listing a 800 bpi 9-track tape drive makes me laugh. How well I remember having to calculate data blocking factors for the various computer tape drives of those times.
I once had to drive a rental car 300 miles from Cranbrook, British Columbia to the Federal Express depot at the Spokane airport to pick up an operating system tape. A customer neglected to tell me he bought a different tape drive than the one he first ordered, so the tape I brought with me to Canada wouldn’t work. So I called the office to get a compatible tape created, and sent to the nearest place that could receive overnight delivery from Boston.
The first loss of privacy occurs when describing a delicate medical condition to someone who took a medical secretary class. Even if appointments are made online, administrative staff who are not clinicians presumably have access to medical records.
I hate the claim that computers are safer because you could put on a white coat and steal a medical record. The trouble with computers is not the stealing of a single medical record, it’s the exfiltration of gigabytes of data that can go unnoticed for long periods.