@dalias @lauren or, like for example systems in airplanes and medical device firmware, everything in the critical path should be designed for high reliability.
Instead we build gigantic internet-accessible web apps with a thousand unnecessary parts and interfaces, and then occasionally it gets hacked or just goes down on its own, and people suffer.
The responsibility for that is mostly on vendors like Epic and on the hospitals that choose to use them, and on our field's lack of ethics.