I have been in the hospital several times over the last decade, and I can tell you that while I didn't try to gain access to their computer systems (the beds had alarms on them that would ring a nurse if I tried to leave one), I can tell you that the computer systems they used were not the latest or greatest. While Microsoft was pushing Windows 10, the hospital was using Windows 7 or older, and the nurses and medical people were not always happy with the situation.

As to your question, my guess is that while you could probably look around the computer and do some basic functions, you probably didn't (and wouldn't) have any access to see any documents (a legal violation) or have access to the Internet (which would cost the hospital monthly user charges). If you're in the hospital and want to use a computer, I'd suggest that you keep your usage to your iphone--at least one of my roommates when I spent several nights in the hospital did exactly that.

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Ted Chittenden

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Subject: [VICUG-L] Restrictions with Windows?

Hi guys, it’s been a while I know.  I’ve been busy, and yesterday was just discharged from the hospital after having surgery on Wednesday.  At the hospital I was at, in each patient room there is a computer terminal that nurses and other people log in information when they come in.  I had always wondered if Narrator would work, and sure enough it did.  When I was there, I explored around in the start menu and desktop.  There were programs on the regular menu, and the same programs were available in Citrix.  When I went to run dialogue box it wouldn’t let me get in there.  I was going to type an Internet address to see if nothing else I could access the Internet.  I was in a push as it was right before I was to get disc Sent from my iPhone

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