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>I think the true tipping point will be when people of a new generation (readers of HN perhaps?) become hospital administrators and with that bring a new cultur

>I think the true tipping point will be when people of a new generation (readers of HN perhaps?) become hospital administrators and with that bring a new culture and view of technology. I have very little hope of that happening. Hospitals are run by doctors and frankly, they lack the technical foresight and respect for non-doctor advisors (cio, cto, etc.) to make correct technical decisions.

aladoc 16y ago
> Hospitals are run by doctors Typically US hospitals are run by MBA types, whether it's a for-profit or not-for-profit facility. They, or their corporate overlords, make all the decisions about capital outlays, like IS. The marketing folks just have to tell them, "The docs'll love it!" No EMR system I've ever looked at successfully models my clinical thought process. I have to work around or against the tool, rather than it disappearing into the task at hand. </rant> Now ask me about modal popups...
- michaelbuckbee 16y ago
  "Run" is a somewhat subjective term. I used to work on implementing EMR/EHR systems for radiology groups within hospitals. Twice (separate states, separate hospital systems) I arrived onsite to find that all of the radiologists had quite en masse over the implementation of one of our systems.