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by jeanlucneptune 2172 days ago
Literally any electronic medical record system ever built.

HUNDREDS of different systems on the market. Some with maybe a handful of doctor's offices using a particular system.

Worst UIs you could ever imagine. Limited interoperability.

In even well-established systems with large numbers of installs you'll see multiple bugs in production code that don't get fixed.

Switching costs are essentially infinity so doctors get locked into a system no matter how bad it is.