3 ms·
Hospitals/Big Healthcare need to be sure the vendor will be around for a decade or three. It is very hard for a startup to offer this assurance in a believable
by meatysnapper 11y ago
Hospitals/Big Healthcare need to be sure the vendor will be around for a decade or three. It is very hard for a startup to offer this assurance in a believable manner. It will take someone like Google to tackle this.
- ef4 11y agoRight, part of their problem is that they're demanding the wrong thing. Instead of demanding a high degree of stability from one vendor, they should be demanding open standards and real interoperability, so their eggs aren't all in one obsolete basket.
- meatysnapper 11y agoWrong. This is like saying we should demand only a small degree of reliability from airplane wings, but we should make them easily replaceable. I don't think their insurers would like that. When medical records start getting lost/exposed because of small outages or vendor changes, the Feds will come down very hard.
- ef4 11y agoI didn't want to imply software that's not stable. I was replying to the point about wanting a big stable company to purchase from.