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> I suggested a simple solution for that - receipt printers.

Just so I understand what you are saying you are proposing that we drown our hospital rooms in paper receipt constantly. In the off chance the computers go down very rarely?

Do you see any possible drawbacks with your proposed solution?

> possibly criminally negligent to make a life critical process dependent on the availability of a distributed IT application

What process is not “life critical” in a hospital? Do you suggest that we don’t use IT at all?




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