EHRs and their lack of function

December 14, 2007

The gap between EHR programmer and physician needs has never been wider:

The systems that I have seen are so non-intuitive, so counter-productive, and so blinking difficult to navigate that they make other business world programs seem so advanced that they were given to us by time travelers who had spent time with Captain Kirk. Some of them have the feel of a potpourri programs forced to work together but which were written in different programming languages in different decades.



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