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There's a lot of money in the medical industry (private or public) but it seems that everywhere and everyone is constantly getting their budget slashed. Yet the amount of money that's poured into this industry keeps balooning!

I have this rule that any organization that treats software as a cost center will systematically get bad software AND overpay for it. Because by under-funding (with compensation, tittle and power in the organization) engineering they end-up pushing talent elsewhere, mostly to organizations where tech is considered a profit center.

Software, it seems, is treated as a cost center by the medical industry and by a lot of research labs (things like not granting authorship to software contributors).

The tone of the article is rather typical of the medical industry. Very condescending to say the least.