[braindeath]

You’re downvoted likely because the high expenses of hospitalization speak more to inefficiencies in healthcare supply chain and the economics of insurance and really has nothing much to do with how much hospitals can afford on IT. Some hospital systems are rich... but they’re not that rich.

That said I agree (based on 1st hand experience) that the larger healthcare multibillion dollar systems in the US can afford to pay more for better IT/engineering. There is simply little incentive to do so. And further it’s more than just hiring a few engineers with FAANG pay... these institutions are organizationally not suited to engineering. Changing this would not be easy for them...and no, we don’t need a hospital run like Facebook or Uber.

Then there are the tons of smaller systems in the US.. they cannot afford high priced engineers regardless of the pre-insurance line charge for a bag of saline.