Caterpillar Cowboy

Tripathi made another impressive point: doctors don’t see the benefit to them in digitizing. In fact, they see it as benefiting everybody else but them. I think this is because they don’t know of any killer app that would make the change not only desirable but indispensable.

This is the same reason Linux hasn’t taken over on the desktop, even though its applications and interfaces are quite easy to use and highly functional. Linux can do everything Windows does—but for the average computer user, it doesn’t do anything more than Windows does. After looking over the applications provided on a common desktop distribution such as Ubuntu, one could well ask—why bother switching?