I and some others in the healthcare/healthcare tech spaces volunteered to create a discharge templating system for many of the top non-English and non-Spanish languages used in the United States - specifically the top languages in the Northwest to start. Our offering utilized data from, and would have been integrated with, an EMR whose name means "particularly impressive" even if their response was anything but. After openly communicating our plans with this firm for many, many months (over two years for some of us) we were informed right before our intended trial that we would be denied from providing our services to the patients (and their providers) who truly needed it. We were never given a reason and I've not seen any product released by this firm in the interim to make me think we were potential competition to any part of their EMR suite.
It was a truly perplexing and depressing outcome. Worse, as some of our team hadn't yet had their sense of possibility and belief in the US medical system destroyed, I saw first hand a number of talented persons simply walk away from doing any work in health or healthcare tech. It was a double blow that went beyond just the loss of the software that was being created; people who otherwise would have dedicated their lives to improving patient outcomes instead went elsewhere with their careers or volunteering lives.
It was a truly perplexing and depressing outcome. Worse, as some of our team hadn't yet had their sense of possibility and belief in the US medical system destroyed, I saw first hand a number of talented persons simply walk away from doing any work in health or healthcare tech. It was a double blow that went beyond just the loss of the software that was being created; people who otherwise would have dedicated their lives to improving patient outcomes instead went elsewhere with their careers or volunteering lives.