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Government 2.0: Ask What You Can Hack for Your Country (mashable.com)
11 points by timae on Oct 20, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



The military and VA could really use a GPL'd browser-based server-side electronic medical records interface, complete with order entry, pharmacy, and radiology.

If anyone is in the DC area between now and Friday and want's a demo of the insanity we deal with, I'd be happy to talk with you. There are a couple of other people I can put you contact with as well. The current client-side programs (eg, AHLTA) are at the tune of $20 billion, so there's a ton of money to be made.


E-mail me.

I hooked up with a couple other HN'ers a year ago looking into something like this.

We never made the team gel, but you might have some info that some of them would be interested in.

Government need is easy to spot. Actually making something happen can take a long, long, long, long time. (Like a year just to get a SBIR started)




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