It makes the process 3-4 times longer, and it breaks my focus and workflow, forcing me to take attention away from the patient who might be talking to me about something important.All of what I described is the tip of the iceberg - that's just the vitals form - there's medication ordering, clinical notes, task management - holy hell, the list just goes on and on, each feature designed more poorly than the last, slowing down workflow and in some cases, genuinely hurting us by obfuscating the information that we need and sequestering it into tabs we can't find.One more thing. It's smooth, it's fast, and at a glance I can see exactly what information I need to see.Contrast this with using the application, which takes me ~ 1-2 minutes. It hurts my eyes just looking at it.Even after doing it hundreds of times, it still takes me a few seconds to get my bearings and find the right fields to type my values in.And how long would it have taken me to fill out a vitals sheet by hand? About 15 seconds. Even if we did, there really seems to be no rhyme or reason to how the fields are organized and set up in the EMR itself. Except for the fact that we never measure height and weight, when you take blood pressure, the patient is usually sitting down, and we don't measure O2 sat or respiratory rate here.

In this application, there are fields for:heightweightsitting bpstanding bplying bpsitting HRstanding HRlying HRtemperatureO2 sata box for notesNow that all seems great. It's one of the most poorly designed applications I've ever used, period.The fact is, many EHR vendors are trying to take a workflow that is paper-based and transfer it to the computer without really thinking about how their design integrates with the traditional workflow of a medical office.For example, I might take a full set of vitals on a patient, and I will have the laptop open next to me. It's actually not just the worst EHR I've used. I'm not a physician but we use an EHR at the mental health clinic I work at, and even though I type at ~90wpm, the EHR slows me and the clinicians down significantly.

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