====== General Information ======

===== Why Open Source? =====
Many people ask - why do you want to have this software open source? You can't earn money from it, and other companies could take your code and make business with it.

Read [[why open source|why we want MedUX open]] from the start.

===== Why Another EMR? =====

== Aren't there already enough on the market? ==

We think it's not a question of how many there are. We think that the EMRs currently available have some serious problems, either being old-fashioned and cumbersome, error-prone, or/and too expensive. The companies behind the software have no urge for innovation, or not the manpower to make innovation happen.

We don't have manpower to compete against the big players on the market. We don't have money to buy competitors, like some of the big players do since years.
But we have deep knowledge of how a medical workflow should be, have passion, and we have time on the long run.
The best way to create an EMR is to work with it. The best way to improve it is to work with it, on a daily basis. The best way to get people help improve software is to let them be a part of it.

== So, MedUX is NOT just another EMR.==

It is meant as a movement within the medical community, to get away from vendor lock-in, to create a platform for every health service provider which they can build upon. It is meant as a fundament for apps, connections to devices, and interoperability with others on a free, open basis.

There are already efforts underway to create such interoperability, like the [[https://www.hl7.org/fhir|FHIR]] project from the HL7 consortium, which MedUX will use as fundament.

But we think that the future in medicine is, and has to be, **open**.