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if one were teaching medicine in a third world context, free software would offer many benefits to their clinical practice of medicine.
by fsckboy 6y ago
if one were teaching medicine in a third world context, free software would offer many benefits to their clinical practice of medicine.
- fsloth 6y agoDo you have concrete examples of this?
- fsckboy 6y agoyou changed the verb tense; if you matched mine you would ask "would you have examples". but to answer your question, yes, every time LibreOffice, Firefox, or Apache is used in a third world medical context.
- matheusmoreira 6y agoI'm from a developing country and the quality of commercial EMR systems varies from acceptable to abysmal. They usually have very poor usability and security. I once used a system which backed up the database by making a copy of the MySQL directory on the same machine. This other system would fetch all patient data from web APIs without using HTTPS despite the existence of GDPR-like legislation. So yeah, there's a lot of room for improvement. Hospitals are unlikely to switch to a new system but new doctors might be open to free software. They need expert support for it though. Encrypted cloud storage services for medical data and images would add a lot of value but I'm not sure if that's legal.