I work in a pharmacy, the quality of the software we use is so low that it's depressing. From the GUI to the non-existent automation, everything is pathetic. You have to manually issue THE SAME data over and over again.
Not to mention that every-single software company keeps it's data in obscure formats in order to avoid third parties accessing the data. It's like if the 2000-2010 changes that took place in the field didn't touch the Greek pharmacy/medical software and most of them keep operating in the 90s closed source principle.
There are some new SaaS about medical offices around. But they are so ugly that it's scary... Small market I suppose.
In these niche markets, to succeed you need to understanding the business well. Having something that is technically good is secondary.
Sure, if you can nail both that's better, but the "domain expert with some vague computing knowledge" beats the "technical expert with some vague domain knowledge" any day.
Add to that the fact that tech people often want to work on sexy projects like social/mobile/bigdata/api/whatever, it doesn't help bringing quality products to these users.
Not to mention that every-single software company keeps it's data in obscure formats in order to avoid third parties accessing the data. It's like if the 2000-2010 changes that took place in the field didn't touch the Greek pharmacy/medical software and most of them keep operating in the 90s closed source principle.
There are some new SaaS about medical offices around. But they are so ugly that it's scary... Small market I suppose.