I think it is a question of rewards and prestige and power. The hospital's
customer is not the patient but the insurance company, who pays the money.
While hospitals may be rewarded for better results, the hospital decision
makers are more often stronger in their expertise in medicine than in
Why hospital doesn't fund computing researchers / research centers to make
their tools usable daily in an hospital, instead of waiting for
private/commercial compaignies/corporations to integrate it, most likely in a
complete new(again) very costly equipment and not as an upgrade or maintainance
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 5:03 PM, David Hirst wrote:
> This article, published under a cc licence, so freely available, criticises
> “free” software and not providing incentives to make it robust enough and
> easy enough for clinical use. The conversation is not peer-reviewed, but is
> a voice for
Thanks for posting this, David.
On 16/02/2017 11:33, David Hirst wrote:
> This article, published under a cc licence, so freely available,
> criticises “free” software and not providing incentives to make it
> robust enough and easy enough for clinical use. The conversation is not
> peer-reviewed,
Why medical technology often doesnt make it from drawing board to hospital
https://theconversation.com/why-medical-technology-often-doesnt-make-it-from
-drawing-board-to-hospital-72981
This article, published under a cc licence, so freely available, criticises
free software and not providing
