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Hospital software
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 12 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Hospital software, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
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 17 complaints
- Hospital record systems are clunky and slow, and nurses struggle switching between different interfaces2026-01-29
- Endless wrong UI/UX choices, opaque documentation, and updates that confuse users2025-10-07
- Unnecessary fields that requesters don't know how to fill, so they enter nonsense2024-09-10
- Clinical software lets users enter bad data and make discharge workflows too click-heavy2023-07-26
- Nurse couldn't dismiss a window because the monitor's controls sat under the screen edge, and a stray keypress hid it2023-07-25
- Clunky nurse-facing systems designed without frontline input add hours of after-hours work2022-04-28
- Forced Windows updates and restarts block nurses for ten minutes while charting2022-04-27
- Blood pressure entry uses two boxes, which is awkward for nurses2022-04-27
- Clinical software designed without nurses, so the UX is maddening to use2022-04-27
- Safety warnings are clicked through so often they become meaningless to staff2022-03-23
- Nurses waste time fighting the software for simple tasks, with slow loads and wrong clicks2020-09-01
- Slow page loads, lost form data, buttons hidden in nested navbar2020-07-12
- Six-step login flow with repeated prompts and a misclick that breaks everything2018-12-30
- Unclear how to change dosage units, so the wrong dose can slip through2018-10-06
- Dosing screen's unit control is confusing; users can't tell how to change units2018-10-06
- Each button press takes 1-5 seconds with animations, wasting an hour per shift2018-04-26
- Clinical software is ugly, unintuitive and difficult to use2010-07-29