The Malpractices of the Multitudes: the Mission Hostile HIT User...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Tue, 03/03/2009 - 16:55

This post is part 8 and the finale of a series on the stunningly poor human engineering of production healthcare IT from major vendors, in use today at major medical centers.

These devices provide a decidedly mission hostile user experience , yet with an almost religious fervor are being touted as cybernetic miracles to cure healthcare's ills.

More on the origin of this post's title, penned in 1836, below.

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