I’ve been working in this space for a while now, and this still blows my mind. Patient-reported data is noisy, doctor’s notes infamously confusing and inconsist

I’ve been working in this space for a while now, and this still blows my mind. Patient-reported data is noisy, doctor’s notes infamously confusing and inconsistent in formatting. Even fields you can pull from the health system’s EHR directly will be in disparate formats across different hospitals, or even different departments. It would be easy to say it all should be standardized (and it should, for the most part), but workflow considerations keep standards from being adopted. What a data standard for oncology data would look like is very different from what one developed for ophthalmology. Not to mention UX - if you’re a doctor seeing 20 patients a day, an extra 15 minutes of data entry per patient could bring that number down to 15 patients or less. UX and data standards really does have a direct link to patient outcomes in healthcare!