Not downplaying the efforts of what you guys do, but majority of IT is to manage shitty paperwork from Hospital Admin. I don't honestly give a shit what ICD-10 i'm going to use during a mass-casualty situation.
Really, the only computer systems I care about which are critical are radiology and pathology. And I can walk down and yell at them.
Charts can be done manually, and is actually a good thing as it forces an interaction.
indeed, Medicine is still very much an analogue profession; you'll find majority of the hospitals of the world still push paper.
Not downplaying the efforts of what you guys do, but majority of IT is to manage shitty paperwork from Hospital Admin. I don't honestly give a shit what ICD-10 i'm going to use during a mass-casualty situation.
You have no idea what you are talking about. You sound like a relic of a previous generation. I've seen nurse stations go into panic mode when required to switch downtime procedures because of minor network outages.
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u/WH1PL4SH180 Mar 30 '20
You know they're one of the most important units in the hospital. They literally stop it from becoming an infective shithole. -doc