> I find it amazingly short sited that antivirus software is even allowed on a medical device to begin with.
Well... Then you should consider yourself blessed to have never had to deal with the bureaucracy of a hospital IT department and administrative staff.
Who owns the medical device? Who paid for it? If it's a glorified Windows machine and it's attaching itself to a hospitals WiFi network... Who has to use this machine? Physicians, surgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists, other specialists, nurses, staff? All of them need to be trained on it's usage, no doubt. They don't get that training in schooling. Who provides it? This and a million other things stack up. So, well, I mean it can start to make sense how these things end up with random AV software installed on them, right?
> How is it you "go hoarse having the same conversations?" Do you not have to meet FDA compliance criteria? Are you in the US?
Yes, we are. Yes, we do "have to meet FDA compliance." I can't define "have to meet" and I work here. Of course, I'm just an engineer. We have legal, executive, and other staff for those matters. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be an asshole... I'm just trying to be honest about where I find myself in this situation.
Well... Then you should consider yourself blessed to have never had to deal with the bureaucracy of a hospital IT department and administrative staff.
Who owns the medical device? Who paid for it? If it's a glorified Windows machine and it's attaching itself to a hospitals WiFi network... Who has to use this machine? Physicians, surgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists, other specialists, nurses, staff? All of them need to be trained on it's usage, no doubt. They don't get that training in schooling. Who provides it? This and a million other things stack up. So, well, I mean it can start to make sense how these things end up with random AV software installed on them, right?
> How is it you "go hoarse having the same conversations?" Do you not have to meet FDA compliance criteria? Are you in the US?
Yes, we are. Yes, we do "have to meet FDA compliance." I can't define "have to meet" and I work here. Of course, I'm just an engineer. We have legal, executive, and other staff for those matters. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be an asshole... I'm just trying to be honest about where I find myself in this situation.