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by wslack 2339 days ago
> Like much enterprise software, the people who decide to buy it are not the people that use it.

Hard agree. There's also an incentive for hospital systems to "hold onto" patient data, which is not great.

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In many cases those "incentives" are legal requirements.
Yeah, for clinical laboratories, for example, data retention requirements can stretch back 10 years. And yes, the inspectors will inspect that.