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Linux in hospitals? (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I was in the ED the other day and noticed that they use a mix of Windows 7 and Windows 10. My question is two part.

  1. Do you know of hospitals using Linux?
  2. Besides legacy software and unwanted downtime, is there any reason why they wouldn’t use Linux?
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago

It's cause Epic/McKesson has complete control over the EMR world so everything has to work with them to some degree.

GNU health is great but I haven't seen where it could support the massive amount of legal and monetary hoops that Epic and co have to jump through as well.

For some reason there just isn't a lot of volunteer efforts/space for open source development in the healthcare world.

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