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I can't / won't argue the point in detail for every profession, but would wager from personal observation that what doctors have experienced with EMR systems is
by jraines 8y ago
I can't / won't argue the point in detail for every profession, but would wager from personal observation that what doctors have experienced with EMR systems is immensely worse. There might be some good systems out there but what I've seen is a Kafka-esque UX nightmare that the doctors can't say "no thanks" to unless they own their own practice, which is being made harder in part because of all the red tape (digital & otherwise)
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 8y agoHere's the article on why doctor's hate their computers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18381969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18381969. It's a UX nightmare or revenge on the ancillaries.
- eldavido 8y agoThe whole problem is that the industry views this as a cost center. It is something doctors don't want, nobody wants to spend money on it, and the EMR vendors know this, so they try to use legal mechanisms (ACA) to require doctors to buy their stuff, vs. competing in an free/open market such as tools like Gmail, Twitter, etc. Look at incentives. This whole thing is so obvious. Nobody in health wants better records because the current industry provides no economic incentives whatsoever for the industry to keep them.