Comment by phren0logy
7 years ago
I'm a (relatively) young and tech-savvy doctor. The electronic medical records I have used (around 5 or 6) are all truly terrible. As the medical director of a group of clinics, I explored replacing our terrible system, and every other system I looked that was a reasonable fit for our needs was, at best, marginally better.
While there are other factors at play, the main one is that electronic medical record software is really, really bad.
No doubt. I didn't mean to minimize this aspect.
I think it will take a new generation of professionals like yourself involved in building not only the software systems, but also the hardware used, the clinic environment and entire patient experience. As it is, these terrible systems, designed by non-medical professionals, are dropped in the laps of practitioners who are not comfortable with technology in settings not designed around the use of technology.