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Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by throwaway4220 on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:42PM (#24338048)
At the end of the day, it's a simple record of the patient, not an IDE. Nurses need to see stuff, MDs need to see stuff.

FWIW, my goddamn opinion: Epic is probably the best EMR I've used, but I can still see some random dude's dog in Bolivia on FB faster than I can pull up a patient's critical lab values during a procedure. Not too worried about missing out on "Now your EMR comes with customizable colors! [dismiss]"

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Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) by bena on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:28AM (#24341514)
This could also be a factor of how much hardware is thrown at the problem.

I guarantee that Facebook has more computing power dedicated to showing you Bolivian dogs than any hospital has to showing you patient data.

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