proline

I’ll leave it to DED to write thousands of words praising an unannounced feature that may or may not see the final release as an Android killer. 

fastasleep said:

Please tell me Stickies.app is still alive?

No, it’s dead as a door nail. Not sure how to recover my data either. 

My MacBook is on its third keyboard and each time the Apple Store took nearly two weeks for the repair. I’ve never had a problem with any other Apple keyboard. Ever. I’ve owned dozens. 

Me thinks if DED actually owned one of these lemons he’d STFU. 

StefanBijmolt said:

Unfortunately, i use epic on a daily basis. It is horrible. As a radiation oncologist, my biggest challenge on a daily basis now seems to be keeping epic satisfied. As much as i would love Apple to haul over epic to something a normal person could understand and actually would like to use, I cannot blame anybody for not wanting to buy epic. 

Same here. Unfortunately, the CEO of Epic seems to be tone-deaf here. The lack of outrage she heard after Cramer's suggestion doesn't mean "Epic is great and everyone trusts us not to sell out to the big, bad companies", but rather "that would be awesome, too bad it won't happen." 

EsquireCats said:

While I congratulate any business for keeping its vision and independence. It’s comical to suggest that Apple would need this company.. at all. 

You have no clue what you're talking about- you obviously don't work in health care. Epic, like all EMRs, isn't great. I'd love to have Apple buy them. But the EMR business is a harsh one- there's a reason Apple, Microsoft and Google haven't tried to enter this market and I'll spell it out for you. Creating a mediocre EMR would cost several billion. Creating a great one would cost tens of billions. Am I pulling these numbers from my ass? Nope. Ontario's ehealth spent over a billion trying to make an EMR and got nothing. Ditto for many other attempts. 

The complexity of an EMR is amazing. Think of everything that happens in health- documenting physical exams, ordering labs, biopsies, diagnostics of every other kind, billing, medical legal stuff, etc. Creating a system that does what a family doc needs would cost millions, but that wouldn't cover what a cardiologist needs to process EKGs and echocardiograms, or what a nurse needs to administer meds. There are 30+ medical specialties of doctors plus nurses, pharmacists, clerks, respiratory therapist, physiotherapists, etc., etc., who all need millions of dollars worth of software. And you can't piecemeal it- they all have to work together. It doesn't mean shit if I, as a family doc, have an EMR if all the specialists are sending me faxes. 

Bottom line, if Apple wanted to make a great EMR, they would need a viable place to start and Epic is probably that place. Cramer is right. But the EMR industry, while big, is too risky and Apple won't touch it.