Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?
A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.
My hospital will be freaking the fuck out about this right… about…. Now.
Your hospital likely won’t allow it because of HIPAA laws.
They may not have a choice, depends on how aggressively they want to push this crap.