Ask HN: Why is medical software so hard to use?

This is coverage of electronic medical records by The Times, in reverse-chronological time, at the clip of about an article a year:

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"Do Electronic Records Help or Hinder Patient Care?" [1]

"Our Hospital’s New Software Frets About My ‘Deficiencies’" [2]

"Broken, wasteful, inhuman, expensive, deadly" [3]

"Why Health Care Tech Is Still So Bad" [4]

"Tech Rivalries Impede Digital Medical Record Sharing" [5]

"Doctors Find Barriers to Sharing Digital Medical Records" [6]

"Doctors complain that the electronic systems are clunky and time-consuming" [7]

"The Cost of Electronic Medical Records" [8]

"Usability is the single greatest impediment" [9]

"An Unforeseen Complication of Electronic Medical Records" [10]

"Most Doctors Aren’t Using Electronic Health Records" [11]

"Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships" [12]

"The Computer Will See You Now" [13]

"There’s no way small practices can effectively implement electronic health records" [14]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/letters/electronic-medical-records.html

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/health/epic-electronic-health-records.html

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/opinion/doctors-nurses-and-the-paperwork-crisis-that-could-unite-them.html

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/why-health-care-tech-is-still-so-bad.html

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/us/electronic-medical-record-sharing-is-hurt-by-business-rivalries.html

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/business/digital-medical-records-become-common-but-sharing-remains-challenging.html

[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/health/the-ups-and-downs-of-electronic-medical-records-the-digital-doctor.html

[8] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/opinion/the-cost-of-electronic-medical-records.html

[9] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/technology/assessing-the-effect-of-standards-in-digital-health-records-on-innovation.html

[10] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/health/22chen.html

[11] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/technology/19patient.html

[12] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/opinion/l11medical.html

[13] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/opinion/06coben.html

[14] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01unbox.html

My favorite is "An Unforseen Complication of Medical Records", despite the several articles before it about the complications of medical records.