> I harbor some serious doubts about the accuracy of this approach and I can't help but shake the notion that the first patient they saw might not have all of t

> I harbor some serious doubts about the accuracy of this approach and I can't help but shake the notion that the first patient they saw might not have all of the pertinent information recorded an hour or two after the exam. You would be correct. > Finally, as an overall generalization, doctors don't like being told what to do or how to do it, and that goes double for computers. They don't care about your needs to maintain a secure IT platform and will do anything in their power to circumvent anything that they don't personal feel is necessary. Better to engage them early in the process, figure out their patterns, and learn how to work with them because going up against them is likely to be a losing battle. I'll give the opposite advice: engage with the buyer. At the end of the contract, he's the one paying and deciding whether or not the software is worth something. Sadly, the objectives of the buyer might not completely align with the provider, but that's an internal issue: as a consultant and an external contractor there's very little you can do. Also, never work for a healthcare organization as an FTE.