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Originally Posted by ilovetv
This mess (all medical orders by computer) is what is mandated by government, for all hospitals and providers, and the software is designed and sold by many different companies making it different in every clinical setting and thus, a nearly insurmountable learning curve for every nurse, PA, doctor to wrestle and beat into submission WHILE they are trying to take care of a patient---AKA "a PERSON who is sick and vulnerable and in need of a doctor, not a technician with eyes fixed on a computer". Also, the software is billing oriented, and NOT patient care oriented.
But unknowing people keep on voting for campaign promises of government-only, single-payer healthcare, and this is what we're getting. And it's only just begun.
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My wife refers to this computer mess as "Caregiving By The Pinks". At her previous hospital any computer item that wasn't filled out came up the color pink. So mostly the people were trying to make sure there weren't any "pinks" on the computer. Didn't really matter if the patient died, as long as the "pinks" were filled in. Then, in the case the hospital got sued, they could pull their computer transcripts and proudly announce that everything was A-OK!