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Comment on: Google is exploring a health record tool for patients
While I see you have insider knowledge, your comment implies that the complexity in healthcare is due to software being “too careful because lives are at stake”. From my limited exposure, the “mess” is not in actually delivering medicine or medical equipment - it is the 50 different companies with entrenched interests to serve billing, manage data, patch work made on top of arcane old systems because people are afraid to touch old systems. I don’t see the “Big tech will write sloppy code and kill people” angle at all. Please help us understand with an example.