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Free and Open source software has existed in the medical sector for decades. E.g: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA
by mr_toad 8y ago
Free and Open source software has existed in the medical sector for decades. E.g:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA
https://www.open-emr.org https://www.open-emr.org
FOSS software suffers from the same problems gaining a foothold in healthcare as it does in most sectors - namely a lack of money to spend on sales, and a malaise of FUD.
- xapata 8y agoThat's some of the issue. Also probably some usability and integration problems. Zocdoc tells some good stories about how hard integration with medical software is.