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Comment by game_the0ry | Hacker News Reader

Incredible. Healthcare is a busted industry through and through. Even the tech companies that serve it are incompetent. There are so many things wrong here:

- the uber-fication of nursing, bc of cheap and corporate owned hospitals won't just hire them as w2 employees

- cheapness probably led hospitals to this crappy app, which probably gave kick backs to the admins that approved it

- this should totally bankrupt the ESHYFT, but more likely nothing will happen

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Bankrupt only? It should also be criminal negligence. Until some exec goes to jail, this kind of stuff will keep happening. Someone was (likely is...) making good profit out of this business by not investing in IT security. They cheaped out, and other people paid the price, who didn't have anything to do with the profit of the company. Watch out for the execs going around in a few years giving talks about how to build a successful company. If we let this kind of behaviour have zero repercussions, the public will continue to pay the price of private profits.

Do not disagree here. As long as it is on the CEO and head on eng. No some poor intern.

To some extent, apps like this keep independent hospitals/providers viable.

A big bad health system will have its own “float” pool of W2 nurses or internal offer system.

Heck, that’s part of the “sell” when selling out: to get access to a robust vacation/vacancy handling system.

I'm really curious about the kickbacks comment. I'm sympathetic to it but how do you root it out practically? Noone has much incentive to fix it because the people aware of the ill doing are the ones benefiting from it.

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