> EMR Designers should be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
It's just so mind-boggling how this shit doesn't lead to more people dying. I swear, the more critical the thing, the shittier the UI.
It's just so mind-boggling how this shit doesn't lead to more people dying. I swear, the more critical the thing, the shittier the UI.
Medical errors do cause a lot of deaths: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/03/4766361...
I don't know if any significant portion of that is linked to bad UI design in EMR software, but it wouldn't surprise me.
In my experience the more critical the thing, the larger the committee that is formed to "perfect" it or provide feedback that is then acted on to the letter.
I'm never sure if it's to spread the perceived liability for not getting it right across a larger number of people, or truly well-intentioned, but having been part of healthcare for 20 years (not EMRs) I can attest to the design-by-committee failures I've seen when anything clinical is involved.