[roywiggins]

This is probably the right answer. Between oldness, amount of money made, and general bad design, I think EHR systems take the cake.

[rostigerpudel]

Not to forget the myriad of different standards for storing and ex-/importing data...it's job security for the programmers, I guess

[JBlue42]

This was interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_record#Barri...

I forget, but I think there was some criticism that came out in a major paper about Epic Systems a couple years back. They all seem to be a mess (and salesperson's dream).