Electronic Medical Records Would Save $300 Billion a Year

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because the software as it stands totally sucks.

I know because my mother works in a doctors office (i installed the software, and set up their network) and they went completely digital with "the best" software out there, and it blows. You lose a wireless connection temporarily, and you lose everything you just entered and have to do it again. It logs you out and you can't even view the chart you just downloaded onto your tablet PC. The software that is available has no fault tolerance, and is very restricted.

If you have 2 monitors, you have to use the main monitor for all your medical software since pop-ups refuse to show on the second monitor.

I've heard stories of other medical software that if you use the mouse it will crash the software. So the techs tell the nurses to just use the keyboard only.

The software that is out there is strictly built for a 800x600 resolution monitor and doesn't scale. So you can only view small amounts of information at a given time.

Throw on that doctors I know don't even want to be bothered with any login information at all, you have no security and a nurse or even a janitor could just walk in and pretend she is a doctor and write scripts or modify patient files. You could overcome this with keycards (RFID tags) that you swipe for PC access, but that gets expensive.

When the software is that bad, I can completely understand why physicians would not want to move forward. I've considered building good medical software myself, but I'm not the type of person to risk everything I have to start a company.