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Comment by anitil

7 years ago

The system designers are doomed though. - Legacy Systems - Complicated workflows - Enterprise software - Difficult compliance issues - Billing and coding

Every moment I touch Jira feels like time I won't ever get back, and it is miles better than any medical software I've seen. Imagine if your whole work life was in a system like that. Misery.

I'll cape up a little for Jira. You need to have it built and configured by somebody who actually, really cares about how people already work and has the Jira-specific knowledge to express it--and that can be hard when doing the right thing in Jira is as counter-intuitive as it is--but when done right it's really very powerful and can be made to be effective and user-friendly. (I volunteered to be the Jira admin at my new company because I do care and I do understand it well enough to do that stuff--and because I own enough of the other systems it'll have to hook into eventually, anyway.)

On the other hand, I used to work on EHR software. Eff that.