Nurses told to BYOD after IT lay off
&gt; told to...  ...Download Cerner...<p>This line is telling. I can assure all readers this is another reddit hoax.<p>First, one does not simply &quot;Download Cerner&quot;. This is software built in essentially visual basic, and requires an incredible amount of tinkering with Windows to run. Oh and it&#x27;s &quot;rewritten&quot; at least 12 times before abandoned, but somebody sold it to a customer anyway. Most hospitals &quot;run&quot; Cerner software via Citrix because of it&#x27;s immense sensitivity and finickiness. Simple renaming a folder on your desktop can break the software (if you think I&#x27;m joking, I&#x27;m not). So yeah, if you actually managed to get the software &#x27;installed&#x27; you probably deserve a Turing award. It&#x27;s not like you can download an MSI and bam, cerner. You&#x27;re going to be copying files, hex editing, reg-editing, installing&#x2F;removing hundreds of windows fixpacks, and reformatting frequently when you screw it up.<p>Next, Cerner software is built in thousands of [ironically named] &quot;solutions&quot;, all decided by the LPOW (loudest persons opinion wins) or HIPPO (highest paid persons opinion wins). A bunch of processing might be done on the client, in an obscure dll that a muppet built once and lost the source for, then some sort of passed to the server via some 15 year outdated IBM MQ series code, using a custom marshalling format some dolt invented and thousands of  poeple have fiddled with and broke. The point being, even if managed to get the software installed, which would be a fucking miracle in itself, even Cerner employees can&#x27;t get it to talk properly. More than likely because some clown invented a new IP protocol because he didn&#x27;t like TCP or something, or OpenVMS explodes when sending UTF8 and your computer won&#x27;t speak whatever charset it uses without installing a custom driver written in vb.net v1.3.<p>So yeah, not even in the world of possibility. Arguably most secure hospital system on the planet because it&#x27;s so crappy, nobody will use it, and no sensitive information ends up in it.