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by prepend 547 days ago
I love open source EMRs, but has any major country adopted open source EMRs?

I know OpenMRS exists but is mainly used within developing nations.

The US has Vista, made by VA, and it is a beast and no one really wants to use it.
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jampekka 547 days ago
If I understand correctly, Estonia made their own EMR/EHR from scratch. The government produced (and commissioned?) software is all open source. https://koodivaramu.eesti.ee/explore

EMR software seems like something that shouldn't be that hard. It's fundamentally a CRUD. Sure, there's a lot of legacy to interface with, but medical software seems like a deeply dysfunctional and probably corrupt industry.

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prepend 546 days ago
It’s a famous “should be easy” use case. I think this is wrong only because no one does it.
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jampekka 546 days ago
I'm sure there's a lot of work, but hundreds of millions per deployment is not justifiable. The Finnish EPIC deployment has cost almost a billion euros.

Estonia's from-scratch system was reportedly about 10 million euros.

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