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by FLUX-YOU 3384 days ago
>Cerner, Allscripts, and others aren't much better.

Allscripts is a dumpster fire. I'm quitting my job that deals with them in the next 6 months and traveling.

Most of the EMRs established lock-ins when interface design was still pretty primitive compared to today: before WPF, C#, decent browsers, and javascript libraries. This sucks because we have to deal with extremely verbose code in laying things out. Meanwhile, modern web and desktop design has skyrocketed ahead of these old beasts, so they look extremely dated when we'll soon have a new generation of med students walking in who have grown up with mobile phones, tablets, Chrome, FireFox, IE11, and Win 7 and their beautiful interfaces and design by comparison.