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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/OpenSustainability on 2024-02-08 12:36:56.

This article summarizes a study that looks at transitioning Canada’s healthcare software over to open source. The gist is that currently each province uses different commercial proprietary software packages - so Canada pays 10x for everything even if they paid to develop it - but worse is that none of them talk to each other - so you can’t even port your records if you move or get sick on vacation. Based on your experience with open source software do you think the economic values are reasonable? If so, why isn’t this being done already? If not, where is the error (dev costs, etc.)?

Here is a link to the full paper: