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Yep. EMRs are for billing first, clinical utility second. Committees composed of doctors know nothing about software design, so their advice to developers is n

Yep. EMRs are for billing first, clinical utility second. Committees composed of doctors know nothing about software design, so their advice to developers is not very useful. IMHO you need developers, who are also doctors or other providers actually doing the clinical work, to make decent medical software.

xxpor 6y ago
Good luck at ever convincing Judy Faulkner she needs software developers that'll cost $700k+ a year.
JshWright 6y ago
I'm not sure provider/developers are common enough that you could build a dev team... (I say this as a paramedic/developer who works for a "clinical first" EHR)