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It also doesn’t help that to break into this market you have to overcome years of customization and millions upon millions of dollars in sunk costs that managem
by Trisell 8y ago
It also doesn’t help that to break into this market you have to overcome years of customization and millions upon millions of dollars in sunk costs that management isn’t likely to throw out for something that “works better for clinicians.” Not to mention the cost of retraining entire hospitals worth of staff to use the new system.
- EpicEng 8y agoThis is the largest factor by far. I am convinced I could write a better LIMS than exists today. I am not convinced I could sell it.
- brent_noorda 8y agoSo true. After over 30 years as a programmer, I recently switched to being a nurse in a hospital where half the day (it seems) is spent charting in the very old DOS legacy charting system. No one would write a system like that today, but with thousands of people muscle-memory trained on the old system, what reasonable argument could be made for a change?