Dr. Harold Bornstein, Trump’s doctor of 35 years, admitted to NBC News he wrote the letter of Trump’s health in 5 minutes waiting for a limo. For NBC news, this quickly written letter is the story. But looking at the photo they reportedly took, I have several major questions.
Doctor Bornstein seems to have come out of another era. If you notice, his PC? It’s running Windows XP. Phone system? It’s an analog rollover, the old Nortel series.
Why do these things stand out to me?
I work in IT services. Doctors are my business. I deal with dental practices and small practices every day, and it has been years since I’ve seen either of these things in a medical practice, for several reasons.
Windows XP is insecure — insecure enough that for doctors that need to send charts or receive charts from a hospital are prevented from using it, and have been for about 6 years or more. The reason is simple: newer RSA key exchanges don’t work on Windows XP.
http://bit.ly/2bodLW8Very few medical practices use old analog phone systems because they cost significantly more to maintain (parts aren’t available if anything goes wrong), and they don’t transfer from site to site particularly well.
Ok, let’s just say: hey, he’s a doctor who lives in another era. He never found the reason to upgrade, why bother? Here’s why: because the software that handles patient billing — none of it, and I mean NONE that I’ve been able to find in the last two hours runs on Windows XP at all at this point.
Look, if medical doctors can make assessments of people they ever met, then let me, as an IT person tell you: I can’t think of any actual, ongoing medical practice that uses XP.. and, if you find out that your practice is doing that today, you need to immediately go find another doctor. Especially one that cares just a slight bit about the security of your patient medical records and data.
