Using pen and paper for everything may be a competitive advantage. I know so many medical professionals who say the worst part of their job is the computer syst

Using pen and paper for everything may be a competitive advantage. I know so many medical professionals who say the worst part of their job is the computer system. The programs are poorly designed, take forever to do basic inputs, etc. A friend of mine spends literally hours per day-- every day-- doing data entry after hours because the software is so bad and so complicated that he can't properly do data entry while helping his patients. It's pretty easy to train people with a notepad and a pen and a really basic form. Paper doesn't have connectivity issues. It doesn't fail to work due to bugs. It works during power outages.... I don't actually think paper is superior in all things... It's harder to share between locations, for instance. But I think the best medical system would be very paper-like. Maybe it would even just be paper. You jot things down, then scan them in to associate them as documents against a patient's account. Dunno. But the current state of medical systems is terrible.