| mrstickball said:
Something tells me you've never bothered making a software program in your life. A hospital is a very complex facility that relies on many, many networks to perform their tasks. Writing code is the easy part. Implementing it on a scale that spans hundreds of doctors, nurses, and other staff for thousands of patients is a much larger task than you are giving it credit for. Networks would need established to ensure compatability between one hospital and the next, one doctor and the next. Security is a paramount issue, so you have to establish confidentiality and proper clearances for such a service - again, that takes time & money...A lot of it. Heck, having worked at a police station - which are much smaller and need the tech - I can tell you that they are incredibly backwards. I worked at the police station that was #1 in the entire nation for technology intergration & testing, and a vast majority of what was being done was still being done by hand, on paper. It takes time to build the programs...Trust me. Both working for the government, and working for a game company, it takes time to develop and test the system to get them to a level that they'd be able to be robustly implemented in the entire healthcare field. |
Realistically, only 10% of the problem would be implementing a system that is adequate for a particular hosptial regardless of how large it is ... Where the real complexity lies is that there are 50 states each with their own regulatory environment, thosands of hospitals and tens of thousands of healthcare facilities that each have their own operating practices, along with hundreds of insurance companies each with their own rules and regulations.
Even in Canada with our "Government" run healthcare, there has been a project by the government to integrate hospitals, clinics and pharmacies for well over a decade that has yet to be rolled out to a single institution because it is so complicated.
