Are computers used in typical health care settings often handled roughly or spilled on a lot?
Davidson: To differing degrees. First of all, health care workers are some of the most mobile workers out there. Nurses and doctors are not sitting at a desk all day long. They’re going from room to room, from patient to patient, and sometimes going from building to building or campus to campus. The more mobile the user, the more likely things are going to get dropped or exposed to vibrations or liquid spills. Second, clinicians are working in an environment with patients and sickness. As a result, devices need to be sanitized like any other piece of medical equipment. These devices need to be able to be cleaned with alcohol, etc. Say you’re in a room with a patient and that patient sneezes; germs can get on the device, and you don’t want to take that to the next patient’s room. You don’t want these devices to turn into a biohazard. They have to be sanitized. The most important thing — for health care and also for a lot of the other industries we focus on — has to do with data being mi
