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What is the attitude in the healthcare industry towards FOSS, and what are the barriers to greater adoption (of any open source)?

• viraptor 5y ago
  This may differ between countries, but locally - knowing a specific app exists. A clinic buys software that fulfills the requirements and knows nothing about the license. As long as someone can install it, operate it and provide support, it can be literally anything. As long as the decision makers know something is available and actually provides value (and the decision makers are not stubborn and set in their ways for decades), it will be implemented. Caveat - people writing most medical/billing software don't have any incentive to release it as FOSS and they have more money for promotion than any FOSS project.
• feanaro 5y ago
  At least in Germany, its healthcare digitalization agency gematik recently chose to base their interoperable messaging infrastructure on Matrix. (https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germanys-national-healthcare-system-adopts-matrix https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germanys-national-healthc...)
• npteljes 5y ago
  Open Source doesn't have the well-funded salesmen to sell the solutions. And the other thing might be support.
  • goodpoint 5y ago
    ...sell the solutions and provide kickbacks under the table. Bribery is very common in large software sales.
    • npteljes 5y ago
      Agreed. There's just not enough scummery in open source to compete.