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I think you mean free as in free beer and software as in software services. IMO the medical industry could use more free as in freedom software, and that may b

by swiley 7y ago

I think you mean free as in free beer and software as in software services. IMO the medical industry could use more free as in freedom software, and that may be an alternative way to prevent things like this.

BlueTemplar 7y ago
I prefer "libre". (Sorry, Indians, you'll have to learn some French...)
skwb 7y ago
The healthcare industry is VERY conservative. Even the thought of moving EHR hosting to the cloud was a huge effort. Things in this industry are simply done at a different pace. Even digitization of medical records required millions of dollars in federal incentives (the carrot), and even more money at stake for not adopting (the stick).
inetknght 7y ago
How would free as in freedom software prevent this from happening?
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  Somebody would've removed the bullshit popup and gave doctors that fixed version instead. Also, the culture around free software and the culture around such abuse doesn't intersect much.
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