The difference between doctors and engineers is that doctors indeed know which parts of the workflow are critical, and which will indeed cause children to die.
To this date, I'm not aware of any record-keeping software that's at least half as useful and efficient as the old and tried handwritten paper records.
There were only three useful IT innovations in medicine : (a) PACS [1] allows to easily compare and transmit X-rays; (b) lab work records; (c) appointments software.
My wife had some complications after childbirth that kept her hospitalized for a few days. Watching the staff fuck around with 3-4 EMRs to figure out what happened when was a ridiculous comedy of errors. It actually undermined my confidence in the medical staff -- they really struggled between shifts.
In the old days, the information was available at a glance, on a clipboard.
To this date, I'm not aware of any record-keeping software that's at least half as useful and efficient as the old and tried handwritten paper records.
There were only three useful IT innovations in medicine : (a) PACS [1] allows to easily compare and transmit X-rays; (b) lab work records; (c) appointments software.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_archiving_and_communic...