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Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world by paulryanrogers on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:17AM (#23300688)
With HIPAA, PII, and other regulations I'm not so sure that no-code solutions are the future. There is a lot of nuance in what businesses want. Plugins to WordPress may be an intermediate example, though very quickly one is approaching programming by configuration, theming, or assortment of plugins. And Darwin help you if things go sideways.
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Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world by enchiridion on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:34AM (#23300883)
On the other hand, why would I want to code to those regulations? Seems like a good way to mess something up and get sued.

A no-code site that meets spec and transfers liability would be great.

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Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world by paulryanrogers on Monday May 25, 2020 @12:28PM (#23302545)
Is it possible to outsource liability though? For example of a hospital chooses a vendor without even looking for HIPAA compliance then can they really claim they're not liable when their use of the vendor's service runs afoul of the rules?
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Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world by fragmede on Monday May 25, 2020 @01:32PM (#23303022)
Smart vendors will learn what their customers (the hospital) liabilities is, and handle it for them, and charge them money for it. (To go a step further, the vendor could offer insurance on it, or make it part of the sales contract.)

Stripe does this for PCI. You sign up, use their toolkit, and then PCI is just handled for you. There are some no-code solutions using Stripe as the backend. That is not be a legal transfer of liability, but it's a level of exposure that the lawyers are comfortable with.

Also importantly; HIPAA is not PCI and not all regulations are created equal. Clicking a few buttons to setup a website, and then clicking a few more, in order to accept money and take credit cards is a far cry from setting up the IT infrastructure for an entire hospital.

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Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world by paulryanrogers on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:25PM (#23305140)
>... and not all regulations are created equal.

Which is why I doubt no-code solutions will prosper since needs and regulations vary so much that they'll be either so many different solutions or monsters to configure.

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