Great questions, 1. yes would be great 2. if possible 3. there are not that many cases to be honest thankfully, the place is not that big 4. not really, this is more of a local thing, i am not from US but imagine if there was a City with people also living in the areas around the city,

sometimes we send doctors to those areas to check on the elderly or even kids, so when i mentioned if the system could distribute in a way or be cloud hosted, it would help with these patients

open source, it would be cheap and as a way of proof of concept, I cant say that we are a 1st world country and the project is also a community effort

this is public health so there is no real need for money making, docs and services are tax paid, but they still suffer from systems in place,

makes tracking patients and previous visits a pain, you dont know alergies or similar things, you need to try and find the records if they have them, sometimes its just on paper :)

hope this helps