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Since this felt like a highly non-credible story to me (because how on earth would this not get funding for a Phase 3 study?), I searched for some corroboration, preferably from a few months ago. And there is some:

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnish-developed_open-so...

https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/1...

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Here is recent article (in Finnish) about their funding problems (https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/3181d8ce-19ce-4d41-a21...)

Tldr; Seems that Finnish government doesn’t have means or/and will to fund these sort of developments (especially if it’s open source)

Kinda sad when at the time Helsinki regions hospital district decided to renew its EHR system into American Epic. Project is estimated to cost 1 billion usd.

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