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Re: GNU Health
#2Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts.
I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth products with existing commercial systems, and ongoing opportunities in supporting health centers using the software with planning, upgrades, and lots of phone & email support.
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#3Here is the link I was looking for. Took me about three clicks to get there so wanted to save you guys the trouble
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#4Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts. I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth pro…
The problem open-source, and social media, and everything digital, has never overcome is accountability. Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong?
Combine that with most small businesses having more money than time (just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host), and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship.
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#5Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts. I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth pro…
The problem open-source, and social media, and everything digital, has never overcome is accountability . Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong? Combine that with most small businesses having more money than time (just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host), and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship.
> just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host
Are you seriously suggesting a business put their contacts in the hands of Google, who has reportedly been totally capricious with account actions in the past and is notoriously difficult to contact when problems arise?
> and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship
Corpo sponsorship required for success? I guess I better tell all the open-source projects being used by millions that they're just hobbyists now.
> The problem [...] everything digital [...] Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong?
I have heard of analog world nostalgia, but you refer to the pre-digital age as if you didn't live through it. It's easier to locate someone today than ever before.
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#6Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts. I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth pro…
The problem open-source, and social media, and everything digital, has never overcome is accountability . Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong? Combine that with most small businesses having more money than time (just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host), and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship.
The person implementing the system for the hospital is accountable. I don’t see why this is difficult because it would be the same if that person built their own product from scratch.
There’s no vendor here that they can sue if they were paying for a product and deploying that, but that’s a different situation and the hospital, frankly, won’t care about that. Who their supplier subsequently sues isn’t their problem.
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#7Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts. I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth pro…
Seems like a wonderful win/win opportunity to have the software be FOSS but enable small businesses to provide hosting/support/customization.
The biggest win of all is if we had an open/extensible/maintainable data exchange format so that we could eliminate the need for paperwork. How many times must we fill out the same information, and then require the providers to keyboard it in?
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#8Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts. I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth pro…
The problem open-source, and social media, and everything digital, has never overcome is accountability . Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong? Combine that with most small businesses having more money than time (just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host), and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship.
You're being downvoted but yes, this is about risk mitigation. The IT department at a health care organization has to balance matching the requirements of payers, admins and clinical staff, do so in a way that fits inside the allocated budget, and de-risk the unknowns as much as possible.
Even if the vendors are only half accurate about the solution they offer, by being paid suppliers, they are on the hook (to varying degrees). These systems are highly customized and serious headaches arise from interoperability and security. If some of that can be shifted to a vendor, it's a net positive insofar as the IT department and the compliance departments are concerned.
Some healthcare organization have invested in the technology side and become leaders in innovation but those are the exception.
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#9Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts. I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth pro…
I could certainly imagine NHS England looking at this and creating something that hospitals and GPs could deploy
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem open-source, and social media, and everything digital, has never overcome is accountability . Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong? Combine that with most small businesses having more money than time (just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host), and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship.
> just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host Are you seriously suggesting a business put their contacts in the hands of Google, who has reportedly been totally capricious with account actions in the past and is notoriously difficult to contact when problems arise? > and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship Corpo sponsorship required for success? I gues…
Can you name one open-source project "used by millions" that does not have corporate sponsorship?