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> No technological improvement is worth risking the health of a patient. What about the time spent on 350 clicks? Do that 20 times a day. How many hours of sle
by niels_olson 11y ago
> No technological improvement is worth risking the health of a patient.
What about the time spent on 350 clicks? Do that 20 times a day. How many hours of sleep did that intern lose to clicks?
As a physician who writes code, and is on the hospital's informatics board, his main point is a massive drag on medicine. And the problem is very much on the IT side. The hundreds of clicks are the problem.
People who write this code really should be made to write that code, at least sometimes, maybe one day a week, on the floors. Just sit at the nurse's station and try to do abstract, thoughtful work in a near panic. Oh, sounds terrible? Yes, yes it is.
The people who buy this software, quite frankly, I have no idea what to do about them. It makes me sick.