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The cost of software, both for developing and maintaining programs, represents a growing part of computing budgets and sometimes exceeds hardware costs. The increase in these costs, observed over the past 20 years, is largely due to the growing complexity of the problems to be solved and to the ever-changing requirements of users. Some programs, such as hospital information systems, represent several million lines of code and involve teams of several hundred programmers.
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Degoulet, P., Fieschi, M. (1997). Medical Software Development. In: Introduction to Clinical Informatics. Health Informatics Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0675-0_2
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