Comment Advice from a healthcare programmer (Score 1) 645
I'm a programmer for an insurance company.
Healthcare companies do not have top of the line cutting edge IT technologies; they're years behind the cutting edge, and they're IT departments usually have people who's training and experience reflects this.
More so for doctors' offices & small clinics. They will have no IT and be running something in windows.
Hospitals are the only ones that may be a wildcard, especially university hospitals. Their systems could range across the board. That's my impression...I'm least familiar with hospital IT shops.
My 2 cents: do .NET and get it over with. I spell it M$ and would love to see java prevail more than .net, but the reality is you'll mostly encounter Windows shops and people who may have simple prejudices against java (viz it's slow, etc.). Even if it's compiled to a windows app and is easy to use & install, catchphrases like "it uses .NET technology" will go far. Even hospitals that use mainframe or unix backends will have their PCs running windows.
If java is the way of the future, then the healthcare industry will catch on years after the fact. Right now they're living in 1998.
Healthcare companies do not have top of the line cutting edge IT technologies; they're years behind the cutting edge, and they're IT departments usually have people who's training and experience reflects this.
More so for doctors' offices & small clinics. They will have no IT and be running something in windows.
Hospitals are the only ones that may be a wildcard, especially university hospitals. Their systems could range across the board. That's my impression...I'm least familiar with hospital IT shops.
My 2 cents: do
If java is the way of the future, then the healthcare industry will catch on years after the fact. Right now they're living in 1998.
