hyponatremia121

I know that devs that work on EMRs might read this thread. I'm pleading with you to take the EMR to the next level when it comes to UI/UX and reliability.

"Operations (not surgery) are so incredibly bad / incompetent in most healthcare settings that software frequently gets the blame for much deeper problems."

"In my experience doctors are a tremendous barrier to resolving problems in healthcare operations,"

I'm a hospital-based physician that works in a system with great operations and results. The physicians, nurses and other staff work amicably together. Management is reasonable/nice. The EMR, though is universally despised. No one likes it. It is a major factor in burnout. The UI/UX is inconsistent. There are slowdowns and outages daily. There is a well known lag in the appearance of text in text boxes after typing that seems to be variable. I've caught the EMR cancelling orders I placed on critically ill patients in the ICU more times than I can count. We have to actively protect the patients from the EMR. Healthcare workers aren't perfect but they are trying to do their best for very ill people in a high-risk setting and the EMR is well-known blocker. I long for the days of paper records because this is worse. Paper charts didn't go offline, have slowdowns, didn't lose orders, were easily located, and easy to enter data into.