[throwup238]

> What's stopping them from doing it without filling it into a digital system? Why is it impossible to make a paper record and fill it into the computer system later?

It’s not filling in new data that’s the problem - every person involved in treatment needs to be able to access the patient’s medical records to check for contraindications. Allergies and drug interactions are a quick way to kill someone when injecting drugs directly into their veins even if they’re already in a hospital.

At a major hospital there’s too many patients coming through and the data changes too frequently to keep paper backups.

[moralestapia]

>Her children’s appointments were cancelled, the first they would miss in five years.

They've been going every two weeks for the last five years. I doubt they wouldn't know what to do ...

[throwup238]

It’s a large children’s hospital with thousands of employees treating tens of thousands of kids a year, not some rural family doctor with a list of patients that can fit on a single sheet of A4. They’re not going to get the same staff every time and the staff isn’t going to memorize the charts of every patient.