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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/Mar/20 20:35, Owen DeLong wrote:<br>
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Step one:
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Consumers
_AND_ especially mission critical consumers must start refusing
to purchase devices which have inherent dependency on a
vendor-cloud (or any cloud for that matter).</div>
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Good advice for mission-critical consumers. <br>
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But the kids don't care how the information gets to them, as long as
it gets to them.<br>
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Stop treating things you don’t own and things that aren’t hosted
locally as “reliable” and make sure that they are not in the
mission critical chain of urgent patient care.</div>
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<div>Anything in the healthcare vertical that is outside of the
medical providers control/ownership is a result of the medical
provider buying into that model on some level. STOP DOING THAT.</div>
<div>(How am I suddenly reminded of the old adage “Doctor, doctor,
it hurts when I do this!”…)</div>
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<div>I understand how the allure of lower costs and the
frustration of “every vendor does this, we can’t find one who
doesn’t” plays out. However, the only way “every vendor does it”
will continue is if every vendor continues to be able to make
sales without changing.</div>
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Product-based mindset from an industrial era is very hard to shake,
even though as consumers of commoditized information in 2020,
ourselves, we actually employ a value-based mindset for our personal
consumption, which we are unable to use to convert our own
businesses into. Funny that, eh...<br>
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Your competitor is no longer the shop down the road. It's anyone,
anywhere, with an Internet connection and an idea. No one is immune
from this, not even healthcare providers or the OEM's they choose to
buy from.<br>
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Cutting costs is not how you stay relevant. But, it's what
product-based businesses know to do, because the alternative is
simply too daring to consider :-).<br>
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Mark.<br>
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