Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by meatysnapper on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:44PM (#9801940)

Hospitals/Big Healthcare need to be sure the vendor will be around for a decade or three. It is very hard for a startup to offer this assurance in a believable manner. It will take someone like Google to tackle this.

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Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by ef4 on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:50PM (#9802384)

Right, part of their problem is that they're demanding the wrong thing. Instead of demanding a high degree of stability from one vendor, they should be demanding open standards and real interoperability, so their eggs aren't all in one obsolete basket.

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Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by meatysnapper on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:00PM (#9806720)

Wrong. This is like saying we should demand only a small degree of reliability from airplane wings, but we should make them easily replaceable.

I don't think their insurers would like that. When medical records start getting lost/exposed because of small outages or vendor changes, the Feds will come down very hard.

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Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by ef4 on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @09:52PM (#9816457)

I didn't want to imply software that's not stable. I was replying to the point about wanting a big stable company to purchase from.

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