[joshgel]

This. The EMR does go down from time to time. We still have paper order pads around so that things can get done. Its annoying AF. You have to fax things to radiology to get a scan. You have to walk to pharmacy to get meds. But, the system worked before computers (which wasn't that long ago in many hospitals) and it works without them today.

That said , the first time I had to use paper I felt like I had no idea what I was doing, because a lot of the EMR defaults aren't there to prompt you. So you have to specify a 'start time' for a medication, but in the EMR now is the default, so I didn't think about it as anything mandatory.

[rscho]

And you can transition immediately? When things like that happen over here, adjustments are far from immediate, and my center is not in the middle of nowhere. Of course the papers are there, but radiology is pretty much out of service for a few hours. And then you have advanced/special testing that pretty much does not run at all.