Why Are Cancer Guidelines Stuck in PDFs?

Re:Why Are Cancer Guidelines Stuck in PDFs? by prepend on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:19AM (#42501448)

I think there are more options than malice or incompetence. My theory is difficulty.

There’s multiple countries with socialized medicine and no profit motive and it’s still not solved.

I think it’s just really complex with high negative consequences from a mistake. It takes lots of investment with good coordination to solve and there’s an “easy workaround” with pdfs that distributes liability to practitioners.

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Re:Why Are Cancer Guidelines Stuck in PDFs? by ethbr1 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @11:10AM (#42502809)

Healthcare suffers from strict regulatory requirements, underinvestment in organic IT capabilities, and huge integration challenges (system-to-system).

Layering any sort of data standard into that environment (and evolving it in a timely manner!) is nigh impossible without an external impetus forcing action (read: government payer mandate).

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