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 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.
+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**.