For all practical purposes, yes it does. Unless you are expecting hospitals and doctor's offices everywhere to develop their own parallel internet-like network. Which seems a bit unreasonable to expect of everyone.
Certainly it's doable: other commenters point out that Sweden and Poland have systems like this. But they are also relatively small countries, and presumably their governments have decided to foot the bill for most or all of it. The idea of the US doing something like that is unfortunately laughable, and you can be sure healthcare institutions aren't going to pay for it.
> Unless you are expecting hospitals and doctor's offices everywhere to develop their own parallel internet-like network.
I am expecting (health) IT staff to make an assessment on whether a system needs to (a) have Internet access at all, or (b) have Internet access perhaps through a filter/proxy.
There are entire classes of devices that should not / do not need to be able to reach www.google.com or 1.1.1.1. While my DC HVAC & PDU and IPMI networks have network connectivity, but they do not have Internet connectivity.
Certainly it's doable: other commenters point out that Sweden and Poland have systems like this. But they are also relatively small countries, and presumably their governments have decided to foot the bill for most or all of it. The idea of the US doing something like that is unfortunately laughable, and you can be sure healthcare institutions aren't going to pay for it.