Emergency doctor and hacker here. The closed systems and lack of support for interoperability between EHRs upsets me the most because it leads to patient harm.
I just had a patient transferred from an outside hospital for abdominal pain and somehow their CT scan was lost in transit. Because it was an emergency we had to CT scan them again which doubled their radiation exposure and their risk for a kidney injury from the iv contrast. It was midnight so it would have taken until business hours to obtain the scans from the hospital.
I just had a patient transferred from an outside hospital for abdominal pain and somehow their CT scan was lost in transit. Because it was an emergency we had to CT scan them again which doubled their radiation exposure and their risk for a kidney injury from the iv contrast. It was midnight so it would have taken until business hours to obtain the scans from the hospital.
Things like this happen almost daily.