[stcredzero]

One of the main reason for this is that hospital staff, especially doctors and nurses, tend to be atrociously bad at technology.

I remember that med students were early adopters of ePocrates in the Palm PDA era. I think it's more that they are atrociously bad at technology, unless it's particularly useful to them.

inability to remember passwords slowed people down

It would slow people down a lot. Someone needs to sell some sort of zero effort authentication technology for hospitals. (One where a supervising nurse could quickly auth the chief of surgery, because that sort of guy is going to forget his token/device.)

[dawnbreez]

Speech recognition? It's hands free and harder to brute-force than a fingerprint.