I phrased that badly - it&#x27;s not that they can reach the Internet, it&#x27;s that with the exception of true high-security fully-airgapped locations, if the machine is networked then it&#x27;s almost guaranteed that the Internet (or something on it) can effectively reach out and touch that machine even if it&#x27;s only via other systems.<p>I don&#x27;t work in a hospital environment, haven&#x27;t for more than a decade and wasn&#x27;t interacting with clinical systems even then, but my understanding is that a very significant amount of medical equipment was networked even then, and was at least in theory capable of streaming HL7-formatted data to other internal systems for reasons of patient care, billing, or both. How much of that happens in the real world instead of being theoretical is something I can&#x27;t say, but I&#x27;m sure in the 15+ years since I was working with HL7 that hospitals and equipment haven&#x27;t gotten less networked.