@Pilsner said:
I'm a sysadmin stuck with keeping a cruddy hospital patient system reasonably alive and preferably consistent. The vendor decided last year that they didn't want to support the product any more to "Focus on their core market of primary care" instead of specialist hospital systems. This of course caught the powers that be totally unawares (they were warned by me repeatedly) and so we have no replacement. Yes, we have to run an unsupported patient system.
Until this point I swore that you worked at my company. We had a huge system that was sunsetted by the company over two years ago finally die. The system was so old that only one person at the company actually knows anything about it. We've been telling the unit that they needed to replace it for two years, and it was supposed to go live this past november. But right as we were supposed to sign the contracts, they decided to shop around for a cheaper option. So now the nurses have all had to revert to paper charting, and the replacement doesn't go live until the end of the summer. I just chuckle to myself whenever they bring it up in our twice monthly project meetings.