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Comment by gedy

2 years ago

Finland has some great programmers, why did they buy from Epic..

Because buying an off-the-shelf solution from an established American supplier sounds like it's going to be cheaper and better than starting from scratch. To some people at least.

  • These B2B transactions are about buying as much protection from responsibility/liability as you can. And possibly a couple more golf friends. Nothing to do with the quality of the software...

  • It definitely sounds better if it means some money/favours will be passed under the table to you or your friends.

Also in Finland we decided to buy off-the-shelf taxation software from American Gentax. I believe it has VB.net core.

Developing a new EHR from scratch that could be used in a modern healthcare system is a huge undertaking. Even a large team of great programmers would need at least several years to build something minimally acceptable.