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I wouldn't go that far with Epic. They always have some unadvertised module they try to push on hospitals the minute they want to interface with a third party.

HL7 is a massive farce. It is an impossibly large standard that's difficult to understand and rarely used for interoperability.

You would think that's the case but from experience it's not. I can name two hospitals in NYC that were supposed to see savings from EHR implementations but ended up having multiple competing EHRs that don't speak to each other because of conflicts of interest. You forget there in many cases there are many payors, tech vendors and providers within a single institution.

I didn't down vote you but here is the flaw. Rent typically trends upward with property values which eats away at a tenants ability to save. This is particularly true in markets like NYC, SF, LDN and HK where people are paying over 50% of their paycheck to rent.

You're not a responsible adult until you recognize debt is a tool. You can use the tool well or poorly but it is just a tool.

With the housing bubble there wasn't a good way to look at each mortgage or the borrowers ability to pay. In a lot of cases the mortgage data was falsified or didn't even exist. In the aftermath of the bust several banks could not produce any documentation on homes they wanted to foreclose on.

Transparency of housing sales isn't what allowed people to see the contractions and it certainly didn't keep the problem from getting worse. Massive numbers of defaults were the indicator. What kept the problem from getting worse was the government taking partial ownership of the major banks/AIG, increasing the FDIC limit and TARP.

That's a pretty hilarious statement considering the lack of transparency is what led to our own market crash.

I have a difficult time believing that stability is the main reason for the lack of integration. Admins have the ability enable/disable certain features. Throw a beta flag in front of the feature and say it's not supported.

I'm going to take a crazy leap here based on the commits. asm might not stand for what you think.

While most real estate agents are completely useless I don't believe the profession is useless. A good real estate agent knows everything about the area they service. What areas have bad reputations and crime scores but are perfectly safe? What areas have development plans in the works? What are the local laws and ordinances, how does that affect your purchase? How difficult is it to get permits for types of work? Are residents fleeing an area because of upcoming re-zoning that isn't well published? They'll have a vast network of trusted service professionals that can help you renovate. They will know little things like which HOA has unreasonable board members or which homes keep going up for sale because the next door neighbor is crazy.

On top of all that small but invaluable information a good real estate agent will make the process of buying your home smoother. I don't think many people have an appreciation for how difficult it is to manage a title company, the seller's agent, three attorneys, a loan officer and the bank. Contrary to popular belief it is not always in the best interest for them to all work together. In some cases one or several of those parties my have a vested interest in slowing the process down or killing the deal completely.

Yes, I should have been more clear. I meant both.

I have no idea what you think I said.

That's a lot to ask from a local government.