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by gibsonsmog 191 days ago
>improve things they are already doing repeatedly. For example, I click the same button in Epic every day because Epic can't remove a tab. Maybe Copilot could learn that I do this and just...do it for me?

You could solve that issue (and probably lot's of similar issues) with something like Auto Hotkey. Seems like extreme overkill to have an autonomous agent watch everything you do, so it might possibly click a button.
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aabajian 191 days ago
Auto Hotkey doesn't work well for Epic manipulation because Epic runs inside of a Citrix Virtual Machine. You can't just read Window information and navigate that way. You'd have to have some sort of on-screen OCR to detect whether Epic is open, has focus, and is showing the tab that I want to close. Also, the tab itself can't be closed...I'm just clicking on the tab next to it.
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BeetleB 190 days ago
Doable in Autohotkey. You can take a screenshot of what to look for, and tell AutoHotKey to navigate the mouse to it on the screen if it finds it.

I've done similar things.

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Zardoz84 190 days ago
Do you stop to think of the wastage of resources that is having an auto OCR of the screen and a LLM to simply close a tab.
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fainpul 191 days ago
And in an ideal world, one could report this as a bug or improvement and get it fixed for every single user without them needing to do anything at all.
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aabajian 191 days ago
Well, it isn't every user. We use a version of Epic called Epic Radiant. It's designed for radiologists. The tab that always opens is the radiologist worklist. The thing is, we don't use that worklist for procedures (I'm an interventional radiologist). So that tab is always there, always opens first, and always shows an empty list. It can't be removed in the Radiant version of Epic.
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PenguinCoder 191 days ago
I'm sure you have, but try be bringing that up to Epic, not introducing AI slop and Data gathering into HIPPA workflows.
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MengerSponge 191 days ago
But why would Epic spend money improving or fixing their software? If they spend money developing their product then they can't spend that money on their adult playground of a campus!
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