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Why is healthcare so much slower than IT?

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Re: Why is healthcare so much slower than IT?

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Because software producers don't have to give a shit if their product actually works or solves a problem? Programmers moved fast, broke things, but didn't fix anything they broke.

> Because software producers don't have to give a shit if their product actually works or solves a problem?

TBH neither healthcare does.

Re: Why is healthcare so much slower than IT?

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> Why does software eat the world in a decade,

Does it, though ? If healtcare was reinventing the wheel and adding layers of abstraction as SW does, we will all be at the hospital waiting for "bug fixes and performance inprovements".

Re: Why is healthcare so much slower than IT?

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Because software producers don't have to give a shit if their product actually works or solves a problem? Programmers moved fast, broke things, but didn't fix anything they broke.

> Because software producers don't have to give a shit if their product actually works or solves a problem? TBH neither healthcare does.

They're not anywhere close to how bad the software business is.