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Nadamir t1_ivslsl4 wrote

Reply to comment by SnakeBeardTheGreat in TIFU by calling a hospital code by justrightkinda

Good lord. As an engineer you should know just how many things are different and still compliant with government standards.

Some things sure are the same, but many times government regulations are like “have a thing that does XYZ” and leave it up to you entirely how to implement that.

One need only look at the different EHRs.

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censorized t1_ivsti1m wrote

I'd love to see the federal regs he's referring to.

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Nadamir t1_ivtk6f7 wrote

I’m not even mostly American (technically I am) but I’ve worked on your bloody EHR systems. And even I know that specifying colours is generally only found in aviation and other transportation regs.

Which makes sense as even a “Code Blue” is not universal.

But even in countries where there is a unified universal health system, such as Britain’s NHS or my own Ireland’s HSE, federal/national governmental regs don’t get that specific and each Trust or Hospital Group has substantial control over these sorts of things.

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