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Medical software
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 17 threads.
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No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
- 1Medical software takes years to masterUnreviewed
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Medical software takes years to masterUnreviewed
20122026- Doctors' medical software has terrible user experience and takes years to master2025-08-07
- Medical software has shitty UI because it must allow for many possibilities2018-10-16
- Enterprise medical software needs more clicks than paper, slowing doctors and nurses down2012-10-17
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
- Hard to navigate, so people end up in ERs instead2026-01-08
- Alert modal is friction-inducing and easy to dismiss without acting on sepsis warning2025-10-06
- Doctors' medical software has terrible user experience and takes years to master2025-08-07
- Each doctor visit costs far more time than the consultation itself, due to paperwork and multiple appointments2024-06-10
- Patients must do doctors' research and push for tests themselves to get care2022-03-14
- Hospitals only learn systems are unusable and inefficient years after multi-million dollar lock-in2021-11-03
- Clinicians must double and triple enter data and fight the software to make it work2020-09-17
- UI elements respond slowly, causing frustration and lag when interacting2019-08-19
- Software changes disrupt clinicians' workflow for a full workday, and fixes to revert them sit unprioritized for years2019-07-26
- Complicated workflows and legacy systems make work feel like misery2018-11-05
- Medical software has shitty UI because it must allow for many possibilities2018-10-16
- Doctors find paging through text boxes in the data entry program slower than pen and paper2015-08-10
- UI is counterintuitive and insanely painful to use2015-05-02
- Enterprise medical software needs more clicks than paper, slowing doctors and nurses down2012-10-17