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Re:When good ideas make bad business by philjohn on Friday January 03, 2020 @06:49PM (#21951593)
That's a shame, in the UK we've seen some medical companies do very well by selling to GP surgeries and Primary Care Services (e.g. Egton who provide the online prescription and appointment booking service PatientAccess).
Re:When good ideas make bad business by cal5k on Saturday January 04, 2020 @01:00PM (#21956287)
Providers are still basically private businesses (at least in primary care), so it is possible to sell to them. The problem is that each province runs its own system, unlike the UK where the NHS is universal across the country. So your addressable market is limited unless you can tailor your product to fit all 10 provinces. In practice it's very difficult, which is why almost all of the electronic health record software is owned by one of 3 large companies.