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By any chance have you used GNU Health[0] at all? I'm guessing no since it's uncommon in the US/NZ, but figured I'd ask just in case. Curious what your impressi
by ryukafalz 6y ago
By any chance have you used GNU Health[0] at all? I'm guessing no since it's uncommon in the US/NZ, but figured I'd ask just in case. Curious what your impression of it would be as an MD.
[0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health
- kube-system 6y agoDoes anyone in high-income countries use something like that? It is worth nothing that the software product itself is only a tiny part of implementing most enterprise software projects.
- ryukafalz 6y agoMaybe not, but if the EHR systems used in high-income countries are as universally awful as I've heard from doctors, and if GNU Health is at all better... I'd ask why not then!
- Shared404 6y ago> why not then! Because people stand to lose profit if GNU Health is used.
- owowow 6y agoBilling and marketing is likely the reason. There is no one responding to RFPs advocating for GNU Health, and it likely is not up to scratch for medical billing/automated overbilling of insurance providers. EHRs in the USA, Germany and other countries with numerous health insurance providers are primarily there to ensure every service and tools used is billed fully (or overbilled).
- kube-system 6y agoEveryone hates all enterprise software because it is designed to meet the needs of everyone, not the needs of any particular user.
- dragonwriter 6y agoBecause the EHR system is not itself an independent system, but part of a broader complex that also includes handling of financial transactions, and financial transactions are what moves money. GNU Health’s support for the whole set of pre-authorization, billing, payment, and related transactions seems to be...generating manual invoices.
- buddhiajuke 6y agoThat logo is so bad it’d be better to have no logo at all.