Jackson Jambalaya

I used to work at UMMC in their IT department several years ago. It was a real mess back then. Every 6 months they'd fire/demote most of the IT managers and bring in new, out of state hires that would mess everything up, repeat.

Think about this for a second: the only Level 1 trauma center in the entire state — in Mississippi, which already ranks dead last in healthcare outcomes — can shut down for days, and everyone just acts like it’s normal.

If any other state’s top trauma hospital went offline, it would be a national emergency. Here in Jackson?

It’s just a Tuesday sir.

Bless their hearts for trying and failing !!

Think about this: the article says CLINICS are closed. Not the emergency department. Read much?

It shows exactly how fragile the whole system is.
A state already scraping the bottom of every medical ranking can’t afford a Level 1 trauma center that collapses every time something goes wrong. But that’s exactly what’s happening.

UMMC’s new strategy: cancel surgeries, park patients in hallways, outsource your stress to nurses, and call it historic disruption aka generational ices storm or let it melt or bless hearts. Meanwhile, other hospitals would be firing half their leadership for a single day offline. But hey why fix a broken system when you can just issue thoughts, prayers, and a press release from another nepotism appointment? Truly a masterclass in ‘modern hospital management.

Now just imagine how infective they would be if we got a direct hit with an X class solar flare during the next Solar maximum (when our magnetic field, our planet’s “shields” are under immense stress) and they lose everything. Our entire medical system will collapse. The solar flare may not kill people. But our dependence on technology has rendered us unable to perform anything besides basic CPR.

The best part is, no one will be replaced, fired or held accountable for any of it. They might even get a pay raise for the failure of the hospital.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/u-spent-30-billion-ditch-110200869.html

With all the money UMMC gets from the state why is there no backup system? That is especially urgent for patient health records.

So! The state hospital is shut down and the wine warehouse run by the state is shutdown. I keep reading where the legislature and state leaders want to do away with local property taxes and find another way to fund local government. Uh l! no that you! I will keep paying my local property taxes and dealing with my local governmen. It ain't great but dang the state can't make anything work. I atleast want to be able to get to town and not get robbed! Im fine mr state man! You sir would screw it up worst!!!!

Did you really mean 'infective'? Is that now and adjective?

You guys act as if you can entirely protect a network from ransomware. This could happen to ANYONE.

Never heard of it happening to SpaceX, Tesla, Anduril, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, etc.

@9:29 a.m., then you've missed a few of their security breaches