In Shirie Leng’s excellent post, “The Email I Want to Send To Our Tech Guys But Keep Deleting“, Dr. Leng lists a series of problem areas which plague software development in healthcare. Making things better requires taking a closer look at the specs we use. The new-age consumer-focused software companies can build products with outstanding usability because they start and end with the specs.
I have spent time at several academic medical institutions, and their software solutions are very much the same. At one, I was given this five-page table of portals and documentation systems with instructions on how to log in.
To read the full, original article click on this link: How Programmers Think: A Doctor’s Guide to Building a Better EMR | The Health Care Blog
