Microsoft May Need to Delay Windows XP Death

The healthcare industry is now required to go digital with patient information. Now, you can contact your doctor via the web through patient portals and ask for appointments, medicine refills, see posted test results, and send a secure message to your physician.

AthenaHealth is one of the big players in this area, and I would assume companies like Athena would be on top of patient security with up to date computers and software, no?

I don't know how it is in other parts of the US, but around here, many individual clinics have teamed up with major hospitals to form healthcare partnerships (conglomerates?). I would almost bet these conglomerates pool their resources to spread the high costs of replacement computers and software around. I know doctors are using new netbooks / laptops in many of the clinics that I've visited (that belong to healthcare partnerships).

 

They are affiliated with hospitals so they can charge higher rates. If you go to Cardiologist's office. The doctors office charges you and then you get a charge from the hospital they are affiliated with for, use of the equipment, use of the room, so you are getting slammed twice. Medicare does not pay as much for that type of visit. Medicare says by federal guidelines certain procedures can be performed in a doctors office and need not be performed in hospital setting. So now the patient gets hit with paying higher deductibles. The health insurance companies are having a field day with this paying less towards the actual bill and having the patient pick up the uncovered portion of the bill. I was injured in the line of duty over twenty years ago and can hardly walk. So I know first hand what's going on. Sorry about ranting on and writing such a long post. But thanks for reading this.

 

Reckon the new healthcare plan will stop some of this?

Mighty sorry to hear about your injury.

Were you in law enforcement or the military?

 

The new healthcare plan is what is causing it. Obama took $500,000,000.00 out of Medicare to fund his health care reform act. That is money that you me and many others were forced to pay into in the form of Medicare Points/credits. I think we all should have a had the chance to at least vote on it. In answer to your question Both.

 

The writing is on the wall. Ignore at your own, and your brother's peril.

 

Last time I got infected

I had Windows 98 and I let my roommate use my computer. I still use as my main computer one running XP Pro SP 3: although I have two pre Intel Macs, one Windows 98 SE, one 2000, one Ubuntu, one Vista, and three Android devices in my home network. Vista I got free from Microsoft. Bought 7, gave it to my niece.

For the average Jane and Joe I say that they should have changed to 7 as soon as it was released.

I am a meticulous paranoid. I harden XP, then choose carefully its security. That along with timely installation of security updates, lil luck, probably, has kept me safe. I have online backup and image backup of system.

modem
router 1
router 2
Windows Firewall
Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete

SpywareBlaster, autoupdate

Sandboxie
SeaMonkey

CyberGhost VPN

gmer
Panda AntiRootkit
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
as second opine.

I will change to something when Microsoft security updates. Doesn't need to stop 'em though.

 

Two - I still have a DOS 6 that runs like a charm - boot time around 20 seconds. second I did update My old XP is 13 years old it got very slow even with the max RAM - now have a Win 7 with 8 gig RAM fantastic speed. Hope this will go for 13 years - that is if I am still here.

 

Windows XP was released for retail sale on October 25, 2001 ... or 12 years, 1 month and 4 days ago.

 

OK so 12 years, but I'm an old guy so you'll forgive a slip of the memory my harddrive is very full.

 

Welcome to the club.

 

ahh what club is that please?

 

Old age.

 

Never knew we had a club - do we meet and exchange complaints, share canes, have a beer go pee ---ha

 

Na, just sit here and b1tch.

 

"Originally Posted by retiredlearner.
You never seem to hear about users of W98/ME/2000 having problems- or are they extinct? Neil. "
"Originally Posted by James Martin.
It wouldnt surprise me at all if some people are still surfing the web with outdated operating systems. "
Yup! During this year, I have surfed web with W98SE, W95 and now I am posting this with W3.1 & DOS6.0. With these vintage pc's and OS's
I have never had any problems. They all have had some equally vintage AV software, some claiming to utilize heuristic detection, attempts to
mess with HD bootsector, registry etc. I think that some malware would significantly slow down a computer that has a small amount of RAM (16, 64MB)
so it wouldnt go unnoticed. I doubt that malware today is compatible with that old OS's and it surely isnt targeted at them.

 

Yup I still use DOS but it's not connected never failed, boots in 30 seconds and you learn a lot about computers. In the old days we wrote a lot of little .bat programs, adjusted the Config.sys, autoexec.bat etc.
kids today would not even know what a command line is, in factI once mention about a sccsi to some youngster and he did not know what that was.

 

I barely know myself , but I wasn't introduced to personal computers until 2003.

 

Excuse me!?? Although I may not be entirely representative...