[fsckboy]

if one were teaching medicine in a third world context, free software would offer many benefits to their clinical practice of medicine.

[matheusmoreira]

I'm from a developing country and the quality of commercial EMR systems varies from acceptable to abysmal. They usually have very poor usability and security. I once used a system which backed up the database by making a copy of the MySQL directory on the same machine. This other system would fetch all patient data from web APIs without using HTTPS despite the existence of GDPR-like legislation.

So yeah, there's a lot of room for improvement. Hospitals are unlikely to switch to a new system but new doctors might be open to free software. They need expert support for it though. Encrypted cloud storage services for medical data and images would add a lot of value but I'm not sure if that's legal.

[fsloth]

Do you have concrete examples of this?

[fsckboy]

you changed the verb tense; if you matched mine you would ask "would you have examples".

but to answer your question, yes, every time LibreOffice, Firefox, or Apache is used in a third world medical context.