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by northern_lights
3384 days ago
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I previously used meditech on a daily basis, and good grief is it horrible. I've seen intelligent people spend 45 minutes just trying to figure out how to write a simple progress note before giving up and writing it by hand. What's very frustrating is that no one - EMR vendors, hospitals, or even doctors - seem to realize just how much of a productivity booster good UX design can be. Even the ability to have multiple windows open at once (i.e. the ability to look at lab results while writing orders or a progress note) would be a breath of fresh air. |
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You have the hospital administration that cares about billing first and foremost. Then you have doctors who have 500 lb egos and could give a shit about the computer systems.
All the company has to do is sell regional hospitals and the smaller practices will fall in line to more easily interact with the health network.
When my wife had our baby, we were in the hospital for a few days due to some complications. The OB nurses rolled around carts with two thin clients and two PCs on a KVM. There were seperate systems for charting, pharmacy, special OB charting, and something else. It was ridiculous.