Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
by bena on Monday August 31, 2020 @08:29PM
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It's one of those sectors where the people who are interested aren't good enough and the people who are good enough aren't interested.
No one really wants to do EMR software. Or medical software in general. They do it until they can do something else.
That and you have to work with doctors. And sorry to say, that is not exactly fun. You have people who think because they did a lot of school, that that makes them an expert in everything. And that their bikeshedding is the "real" important issue.
When I last worked with it, databases were the hot new thing. And I don't mean databases were new tech. I mean medical software was just catching on to storing data in databases.
I think one company was pushing a solution that was essentially a collection of Word templates. As if they had hit upon something not only novel, but that no one in history had thought to do.
If you're a software developer, eventually you get tired of pissing up rope and get a better job.
No one really wants to do EMR software. Or medical software in general. They do it until they can do something else.
That and you have to work with doctors. And sorry to say, that is not exactly fun. You have people who think because they did a lot of school, that that makes them an expert in everything. And that their bikeshedding is the "real" important issue.
When I last worked with it, databases were the hot new thing. And I don't mean databases were new tech. I mean medical software was just catching on to storing data in databases.
I think one company was pushing a solution that was essentially a collection of Word templates. As if they had hit upon something not only novel, but that no one in history had thought to do.
If you're a software developer, eventually you get tired of pissing up rope and get a better job.