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...and it did not even kill him. Meanwhile that same technology has replaced a reportedly convoluted and error-prone manual process that presumably worked perf
by zeroname 8y ago
...and it did not even kill him.
Meanwhile that same technology has replaced a reportedly convoluted and error-prone manual process that presumably worked perfectly and never harmed anyone, otherwise surely the authors of the article would have gone into that.
- leoc 8y agoTFA does mention that, to be fair: > [...] But even in simplified form, you can see why the old system was hugely error-prone. A study from the pen-and-paper era showed that 1 in 15 hospitalized patients suffered from an adverse drug event, often due to medication errors. A 2010 study (using data collected during the pre-digital era) estimated the yearly cost of medication errors in U.S. hospitals at $21 billion. > Those of us who worked in this Rube Goldberg system — and witnessed the harms it caused — anxiously awaited the arrival of computers to plug its leaks. [...]