> I’m upvoting this in hopes that someone with more knowledge than me can explain why the EMRs are all terrible. As another poster said: EMRs are billing and c

> I’m upvoting this in hopes that someone with more knowledge than me can explain why the EMRs are all terrible. As another poster said: EMRs are billing and compliance tools, paid for by administrators that are intending to buy billing and compliance tools. They support that function very well. The people using it clinically (a) aren't the ones paying for it, and (b) tend to be inconvenienced by the very same billing and compliance elements that make it worth paying for. EMRs don't suck for clinicians because it's impossible to have a nice clinical interface. They suck because they're a non-clinical tool being shoe-horned into a clinical setting and forcing clinicians to do the data entry work.