> Life would be simpler if only these hospitals could set aside their arrogance and just go with the recommended workflow!
This would be like asking programmers to standardize on the recommended programming language.
we would love to just use the recommended workflow, if it worked for our hospital. There are differences in the patients, doctors, local regulations, existing systems, etc between hospitals.
Patients: Top cancer hospital does a lot of clinical trials, so some of the forms require you to fill out clinical trial information for every patient. In a maternity ward, it would not be appropriate to ask about clinical trials for every patient.
Doctors: Hospitals are staffed differently. If the hospital has residents, some of the work can be delegated to residents. If not, someone else has to do it. The workflow needs to account for who is actually available to do the work.
Local regulations: Medicine is highly regulated, and each state and hospital has its own rules.
Existing systems: Hospital computer systems have been around for decades, and usually it's not possible to migrate everything to a new system, so the new system needs to integrate with the old systems that couldn't be upgraded.
This would be like asking programmers to standardize on the recommended programming language.
we would love to just use the recommended workflow, if it worked for our hospital. There are differences in the patients, doctors, local regulations, existing systems, etc between hospitals.
Patients: Top cancer hospital does a lot of clinical trials, so some of the forms require you to fill out clinical trial information for every patient. In a maternity ward, it would not be appropriate to ask about clinical trials for every patient.
Doctors: Hospitals are staffed differently. If the hospital has residents, some of the work can be delegated to residents. If not, someone else has to do it. The workflow needs to account for who is actually available to do the work.
Local regulations: Medicine is highly regulated, and each state and hospital has its own rules.
Existing systems: Hospital computer systems have been around for decades, and usually it's not possible to migrate everything to a new system, so the new system needs to integrate with the old systems that couldn't be upgraded.