[consulting] Consultants that have deployed healthcare-related Drupal projects

[Bèr Kessels]

Op woensdag 18 april 2007, schreef Boris Mann:
> Hi all:
>
> I've been getting more regular contacts from people around the world
> interested in the intersection of Drupal and healthcare.
>
> Anyone out there have a specialization in healthcare and/or pointers
> to live Drupal sites that show healthcare? I remember seeing some
> e-health using big taxonomy based systems several years back, but
> can't find it ATM.

I'm involved in two large projects, one in Drupal and one in Ruby on Rails. 
None of wich are public, but I can send you some screenshots if you wish. 

The Drupal one is a system that allows Doctors to order healthcare at/from the 
so called 'thuiszorg', for wich AFAIKS there is no US counterpart. 

In a nutshell the conclusion here, is that Drupal was not the best choise.

Healthcare organisations are often large. And in any case, they are "stuck" in 
very complex, and very streight workflows and requirements. Moulding Drupal 
to fit exactly in these workflows, to couple Drupal to existing databases and 
sources, and to make drupal fit within the *exact* requirements is a very 
very tough job. Such a toucgh job that its just as easy to develop a custom 
system, maybe based on some libraries in Drupal, or maybe built in something 
like cakePHP, jBoss or Ruby on Rails. Rather then spending 90% of the 
time/budget/effort on making Drupal do tricks it does not want or like to do. 

There surely are exceptions, but in general I think Drupal and healtcare don't 
make a good marriage. Simply because healthcare has such inflexible 
requirements and workflows. 

Bèr
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