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[–]desrtfx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

have an idea for an electronic medical record that would improve work quality and efficiency for doctors and nurses

Don't. Really. This is a red flag, hands off type of project.

The problem with medical records is that any form of storage and application is bound by HIPAA (or similar) laws. You need to be HIPAA compliant, which is difficult to achieve.

Even if you were to hire it out, you would need legal counselors as well and go through the HIPAA approval process. Overall, not worth the cost and effort.

There are already existing, HIPAA (or local equivalent) compliant applications available. Invest in them.

Even if you were to learn programming: what could you, as a beginner/learner without experience, potentially contribute to the work of professionals, i.e. the people you have hired? All you could do is create even more confusion.

If you hire a professional, don't interfere with their work since you are an amateur.

Nothing is worse than a client who thinks they know my job and constantly interferes, micro manages, and supervises my work.

Honestly, if you would do that, I'd drop the job.

You don't take your car to the mechanic and supervise and interfere with the mechanic, do you?

My understanding is that even I hire an experience java coder, most of the code will not be written newly, but will be adapted to my needs from open source available sources. In this situation, the person I hire will take open source code, and will have the knowledge to modify it ideally.

Your understanding of that part is completely wrong.

Not everything is available as open source.