I was in the ED the other day and noticed that they use a mix of Windows 7 and Windows 10. My question is two part.
- Do you know of hospitals using Linux?
- Besides legacy software and unwanted downtime, is there any reason why they wouldn’t use Linux?
It’s cause Epic/McKesson has complete control over the EMR world so everything has to work with them to some degree.
GNU health is great but I haven’t seen where it could support the massive amount of legal and monetary hoops that Epic and co have to jump through as well.
For some reason there just isn’t a lot of volunteer efforts/space for open source development in the healthcare world.