In my column this week, I lay out the abject failure that is tax policy with regards to nonprofit hospitals in the United States.
“Nonprofit hospitals constitute approximately 58% of all community hospitals and enjoy extensive tax breaks that often form a substantial part of their net income. ... . A 2023 report from the Senate HELP Committee found that many nonprofit hospitals spend far less than 1% of their revenue on charity care.”
@andrew who would run the software? how does it get developed?
i’m having trouble envisioning how this software would get built. in order to build it, you need access to PHI, and most organizations that have access also have incentive to not build this software
a lot of OSS is built by individuals, but this can’t be, because PHI
government could, but do they have incentives & budget in the right place? if they did, why would they open source it? does it even benefit from being open source?
@andrew in a nutshell — there’s a reason not many AI/ML projects are released as open source. the access to data often runs into privacy issues if not intellectual property issues
@kellogh In terms of who would run, I'd suggest the IRS. There shouldn't be the need for any involvement of PHI, as this would be on the regulatory/compliance front -- think an upgraded and more robust Form 990.
I argue for OSS for government software platforms generally for purposes of transparency.
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