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Hi there, i'm James and i'm just here for a little bit of guidanace as to where to go from here. The current situation for healthcare management applications is that they are all expensive, buggy, poorly developed, and insecure. I've had to work with software whilst working in the NHS which is completely awful and is more of a chore than a help when it comes to the management of appointments, patients, medicine, etc.

The current proprietary software, other than the genisys system that the NHS uses, is in one word; DIABOLICAL. It's not any help, and the marketing of the sofware is actually probably better than the software itself. At the moment, the NHS is spending around £6.2bn for software which crashes, mis-references files and other things (http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,38…39161655,00.htm), and it's extremely annoying that they're wasting money they shouldn't be.

I think there's a genuine opportunity here to provide open source software that could be scaled from a hospital in nairobi, to a large scale healthcare provider like the NHS or other more international services. I've been looking around at what the other software offers, and i have to say, it's essentially NULL.

I want to help fill the gap by making a healthcare management software that could plug into other existing KDE software to make a feature-complete system, and what's more, reduce healthcare costs dramatically. The thing is, where do i go from here? There's a development process here, but i fear that to make a product that would be able to start competing after a small period i'd need some form of help, which is why i was asking here.

Any ideas on how i can make this an idea?