The Silent Crisis in Healthcare Software: Where Are the Modern Open-Source Medical Records Systems?
As both a practicing physician and software developer, I've witnessed firsthand how healthcare technology seems frozen in time while the rest of the software world races forward. [...] This void in modern, open-source healthcare software isn't just an inconvenience - it's actively harmful to healthcare delivery.
Clinics and small hospitals, especially in underserved areas, cannot afford the expensive proprietary systems.
They're left choosing between outdated open-source solutions or nothing at all. Meanwhile, laboratory information systems, critical for modern healthcare delivery, face the same drought of open-source innovation.