Re:Bezos should put his billions in public libraries
by graphitezepp on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:16PM
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Large part of the issue is any downtime of existing systems is generally considered completely unacceptable in health care.
Re:Bezos should put his billions in public libraries
by volkk on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:22PM
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Yep. The other thing is that generally any sort of screw up (apart from server down time) by a company will cause extreme distrust from partners to the point of failure of your business. It's extremely tricky.
The other issue (at least in the USA) is a ton of compliance stuff you have to deal with. HIPAA compliance is such a pain in the ass. It's not "cool" or fun, so it doesn't usually attract great devs or people that don't want to deal with constant red tape and permissions for accessing things. Naturally, this business sort of attracts the bureaucratic minded people and the really efficient people end up frustrated/burn out and move into an industry where getting shit done is easily quantifiable in the short term.
Regardless, I work in the healthcare industry currently and it's a shitshow for lack of a better word.