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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 2681019" data-attributes="member: 10913">The point of a hospital is to take care of people in need. Not to make profit. If in your profit model you seek to exploit every avenue of revenue you may end up with "superior" care if it is a market demand, but you will NOT provide the best medicine for the most people. It is all a matter of measuring success. If you are a for-profit organization, your measure of success is simple - the profit. If you are a hospital, however - just what is your goal? Improving the life quality of as many people as possible? Saving as many lives as possible? Providing the best medical care possible on this earth? Making as much profit for your owners? There are several possible objectices, and they cannot generally be achieved simultanously.All non-profit organizations include an element of buisness to them. ENWorld, for example, always needed to pay for bandwidth and server services - a purely buissness transaction. Optional membership fees for added functionality are a "buisness model" it has been using for ages.The point is not whether an organization has buisness aspects to it. The point is whether these aspects are limited by and serve the organization's goals, or whether the organization serves the buisness goals.Regarding ENWorld specifically, I don't want to get mired in that. Morrus said his piece, that is enough for me.</blockquote>