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by Amasuriel 1419 days ago
It’s actually worse than that. I would hardly count myself among the best, but I’m certainly experienced and would absolutely love to try and fix the absolutely appalling state of health care records for example.

But besides there being no money in it, between regulatory hurdles, fragmented ecosystems and lack of incentives for individual doctors or hospitals to be good at sharing or maintaining these types of records, I could give the software away for free and still fail to gain traction.

In all of these spaces I don’t see how it progresses without government regulation and/or incentives, because the incumbents have literally no reason to improve.