"If an individual, an entrant must be a citizen of or permanent resident of the United States". You have already lost 96% of contestants who could have contributed.
Not necessarily. How hard would it be to find an American person to collaborate with who can represent the group?
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#13"If an individual, an entrant must be a citizen of or permanent resident of the United States". You have already lost 96% of contestants who could have contributed.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not necessarily. How hard would it be to find an American person to collaborate with who can represent the group?
Not hard. Email me. (Do I get a bonus for veteran status? :D )
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#15This is badly needed. Appointments can take longer than two weeks. For example, if a veteran has PTSD and cannot get immediate care when they're experiencing an anxiety attack that lasts for more than a day, it can result in extreme consequences such as suicide.
WHAT!?
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#16"If an individual, an entrant must be a citizen of or permanent resident of the United States". You have already lost 96% of contestants who could have contributed.
Leaving plenty of qualified people in the 4%, and avoiding a "government gives our jobs to India" PR disaster.
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#17This is a ridiculously open-ended spec, and there's a mountain of federal legislation to comply with. I might go as far as to say that it's a reckless way to try to procure software, as it's very much a product which needs to work and be supported over the long term, not some sort of black-box AI quick win.
As an anecdote, I work on a medical information system for emergency rooms. The VA uses our system in some locations. Federal regulations are not at all onerous. Things like HIPAA are dealt with using a few really basic rules.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not hard. Email me. (Do I get a bonus for veteran status? :D )
Same here. As a user of the VA system this is very much needed and only the tip of the iceberg.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not necessarily. How hard would it be to find an American person to collaborate with who can represent the group?
Not hard. Email me. (Do I get a bonus for veteran status? :D )
Shame, I have a lot of spare time and I'd be up for an interesting project (not sure if this qualifies, I've only skimmed it).
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#20To get a flavor of it, here is a random selection from one of the 913 files making up their current scheduling system (said file helpfully named SCAPMC8P.m, pretty much like all the others):
SCDATES2,SCN2,SCPTP,SCX,SCXA,SCXE,SCNA,SCNE,SCPRCLST,SCPRCPTR N SCP1P11,SCP12,SCP13,SCP14P16,SCR N SCLIST1,SCLIST2,SCN3,SCN4,SCPS,SCPSX,SCPSXA,SCPSXE,SCVALHIS ; S @SCLIST@("PR","CH")=$$VALHIST^SCAPMCU5(404.53,SCTP,"SCVALHIS") G:'$$ACTHIST^SCAPMCU5("SCVALHIS","SCDATES") PRECQ G:'$D(SCVALHIS) PRECQ