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Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to by BeetleB on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:38AM (#32010297)
> The difficulty of fixing and improving these systems is frankly overrated. It has more to do with penny pinching and profiteering that they haven't modernized.

Eh, I'd rather listen to duffpkg, with his extensive, real world experience in health tech, than a random comment.

FWIW, a former coworker of mine spent a few years at a health technology company (also worked with MUMPS), and legal compliance was the number one hurdle to modernizing. It was expensive, and created a huge drag.

Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to by smolder on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:02AM (#32014232)
I wasn't exactly disagreeing with duffpkg in my little rant there; just reframing the "difficult and expensive" as an unwillingness by various actors to spend the appropriate engineering cost on competently built systems.