Re: just a marketing ploy
"This is an obvious "we sell virtual desktop infrastructure, a handy way to migrate from XP"
Probably, but it doesn't mean they're wrong. There's little need to have numerous copies of a full blown desktop OS dotted around various wards and departments when all the data is centralised anyway. Far better to have a thin client with a few centralised servers that can be properly protected. The staff working in the hospital can't be blamed for not sorting out the IT, they're too busy doing other stuff, like oh I dunno, saving peoples lives maybe. The desktop machines should just be plug and play with little to no scope for any possible malware injection.