[artful-hacker]

I'm in this business too, and it's not just the direct features supporting the law, its the law driving out time and talent trying to make things better. We don't have time to improve systems because we are all too concerned with meeting the latest regulatory pipe dream of interoperable systems.

Systems that nobody has ever asked us to use. Entire APIs with full access to key data, that nobody uses.

[tristor]

Yes, this is probably the bigger impact, to be honest. Teams have limited resources and more and more of it is cannibalized by regulatory compliance work.

[giantg2]

We've created so much regulation that no one person can know it all - not the legislators, not the agents/bureaucrats, not the judges, and certainly not the workers or patients who would be most affected by them.

[killjoywashere]

I was just on a 40-person call with Micky Tripathi today. I was on a gov-only call with his minions yesterday. They mean well, but they're policy people, they don't promote by repealing policy (remember, the boss promoting them wrote that policy). No programmer will stoop to a government salary to clean up the mess. Something has to give, and we've decided to break the doctors and nurses until the patients die. Things might change once a few major city trauma systems implode.

Keep in mind, the boomers are retiring and there aren't enough Gen X to replace them. Here's the graph of job postings for my specialty (takes a bit of finagling for it to render, esp. mobile, but suffice to say the system is going bonkers): https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/jobs?jbl=1