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Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by ryukafalz on Monday August 31, 2020 @08:35PM (#24337314)
By any chance have you used GNU Health[0] at all? I'm guessing no since it's uncommon in the US/NZ, but figured I'd ask just in case. Curious what your impression of it would be as an MD.

[0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health

Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by buddhiajuke on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:36PM (#24337665)
That logo is so bad it’d be better to have no logo at all.
Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by kube-system on Monday August 31, 2020 @08:45PM (#24337378)
Does anyone in high-income countries use something like that? It is worth nothing that the software product itself is only a tiny part of implementing most enterprise software projects.
Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by ryukafalz on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:22PM (#24337594)
Maybe not, but if the EHR systems used in high-income countries are as universally awful as I've heard from doctors, and if GNU Health is at all better... I'd ask why not then!
Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by owowow on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:42PM (#24337707)
Billing and marketing is likely the reason. There is no one responding to RFPs advocating for GNU Health, and it likely is not up to scratch for medical billing/automated overbilling of insurance providers.

EHRs in the USA, Germany and other countries with numerous health insurance providers are primarily there to ensure every service and tools used is billed fully (or overbilled).

Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:58AM (#24338693)
Because the EHR system is not itself an independent system, but part of a broader complex that also includes handling of financial transactions, and financial transactions are what moves money.

GNU Health’s support for the whole set of pre-authorization, billing, payment, and related transactions seems to be...generating manual invoices.

Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by kube-system on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:36PM (#24338016)
Everyone hates all enterprise software because it is designed to meet the needs of everyone, not the needs of any particular user.
Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by Shared404 on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:40PM (#24337694)
> why not then!

Because people stand to lose profit if GNU Health is used.