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Mayo study finds Electronic Health Records less user-friendly than Excel
- sithadmin 7y agoThis is an inane comparison. Excel doesn't scale nor provide the features than an EHR system does, let alone meet various regulatory and audit requirements.
- pkaye 7y agoThey are just ranking various products on an "user friendly" scale. Google search was at the top. It doesn't mean Excel is being used like an EHR system.
- thedudeabides5 7y agoExcel is used by literally every employee of the bank that holds your life savings. Now you have the best cancer hospital in the world saying they prefer it as users. Seems like it scales alright. Is it possible there's something better, of course, but stop complaining about excel and start making the better thing.
- neonate 7y agoEverything is less user-friendly than Excel.
- rdiddly 7y agoLots of databases much more secure than Excel are less user-friendly than Excel. That's a feature, not a bug.
- monkeydreams 7y agoEMRs have baked-in technical debt, inefficient workflows which resist attempts to "localise" them (I'm looking at you Epic) and a web of technical inter-dependencies which result in issues strange, intermittent and unreplicatable. Excel solves existing problems quickly and is famously flexible. However - EMRs are rigid because they need to be safe and secure. You shouldn't have the Excel flexibility in (for instance) pharmacy and dosing, for instance. I expect that new flavours of EMRs will arrive in the next 10 years or so with more flexible workflows that incorporate the current safeguards but wrap that iron fist in a pleasingly soft glove.