Here, I am going to talk about the second question I liked in the exercise sessions. During one of the lectures, Erkki talked about something import happened recently in the Finland's Health Information System (HIS). There story is, Finns was able to develop a integrated HIS, that costs them 1.8 billion euros. On the other hand, Estonians was able to the the same, with only 17 million euros. The exercise question had asked us, what you think the reasons would be.
Everyone has different answers, but almost everyone agreed on the fact that the main reason could be the difference in the nature of these twoHIS. As Maids Tiik, Estonian IT expert has stated in an interview, regarding this huge difference, the main idea behind Estonian HIS is ‘lightness’ and of course, they have developed the HIS from scratch, so we can conclude that from the beginning, they had the intention to develop a light, fast and space-optimized software. So, there is not any heavy process-consuming tasks that for sure require more or faster processors, much memory space to run and many technicians to constantly repair the bugs and problems due to overload of software.
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