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Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol by rmc on Thursday February 19, 2015 @11:46AM (#9075003)
Technology companies may be able to run with ~100 people. But how are you going to run a large hospital? The NHS in the UK employs more than a million people.
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Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol by amelius on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:40PM (#9075443)
Every department could be run by a separate company. This also ensures quality at the department level.

These companies could then be hired by the hospital itself.

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Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol by pjc50 on Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:00PM (#9075627)
You were that guy promoting the "NHS internal market", weren't you? This is basically what happened: individual hospitals run by trusts, services contracted in. GPs responsible for allocating budgets. It hasn't made much of a difference beyond increasing the number of administrative staff.
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Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol by amelius on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:05PM (#9076125)
Health care is working far from properly in the case of normal capitalism, so actually it is a bad example.
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