Products · Broad category
EMR systems
Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 13 threads.
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No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Records need excessive documentation and clumsy screensUnreviewed
20112026- Electronic medical record interface is shockingly bad and hard to use2024-01-30
- Hospital customizations ruin usability of electronic medical records software2020-07-12
- Electronic medical record systems have poor UX and require excessive documentation2017-05-16
Screen work pulls physicians' attention away from patientsUnreviewed
20112026- Clinicians must do data entry for billing and compliance, making EMRs inconvenient to use2018-12-22
- Most EMRs are clunky, pulling physicians' attention away from patients to the screen2018-04-29
- EMR is a hindrance to doctors' workflow compared to paper charts2015-03-12
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 14 complaints
- Alert blocks access to chart, can only be dismissed by restarting session2025-10-07
- Electronic medical record interface is shockingly bad and hard to use2024-01-30
- Two second typing latency made clinicians unable to get work done2022-10-18
- Defaults hid required fields, so staff forgot to set medication start time on paper2020-09-18
- Text boxes behave inconsistently, with wrong keyboard selection and Ctrl+Backspace behavior that varies across screens2020-09-01
- Hospital customizations ruin usability of electronic medical records software2020-07-12
- Clinicians must do data entry for billing and compliance, making EMRs inconvenient to use2018-12-22
- Mg versus mg/kg dosing unit is a dropdown, letting users order 40x dose by mistake2018-10-06
- Most EMRs are clunky, pulling physicians' attention away from patients to the screen2018-04-29
- Order entry has usability problems that make it easy to enter the wrong thing accidentally2017-05-16
- Electronic medical record systems have poor UX and require excessive documentation2017-05-16
- Reloading or pressing back logs user out, forcing a full fresh login2015-11-02
- EMR is a hindrance to doctors' workflow compared to paper charts2015-03-12
- Designed for billing and administrators, not for doctors' patient-care workflow2011-03-27