After seeing my doctor's Patient Dashboard UI, I am convinced there are two types of apps:

1. The ones designed to watch

2. The ones designed to work

Those that stay in between don't do either very well.

I was quite impressed by the minimum number clicks and key presses to do things that are quite different from one another (e.g. anotate a retinal image in the same screen as talking about allergies). No navigation. No back and forth. Just one super packed screen with everything on it. Quite intimidating in the beginning but extremely productive if you spend your entire day in it.

We need more desktop apps like that.

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Pharmacy management systems are similar.

The new one ive been using is quite robust and feature rich

Do they make it just for your role or does it have too many things you don't use or care about?

I have a security manager screen that allows me to limit actions of employees based on their login badge.

Ex. Changing a drug on an order to a non equivalent drug.

Pharmacist - can do pretty much anything in the system.

Technician - requires a pharmacist approval for changing to non equiv drug.

Its really modular on who and what permissions i can givr to the employees

Its ass backwardd for me tho, im the technician that runs a independent pharmacy, so i have permissions to do any and everything, but the other technician is limited to just what they need to do their responsibilities.

7/10

Best feature

insurance info lookup.

Such a time saver.

Context, previous to this we used a 'line-based' custom made syetem from 19.

They, as a PMS provider have numerous features and a la cartr services. So we deff dont fully utilize the capabilities of the system

What EMR was it?

Custom made for the practice.

I remember working retail and switching from a terminal UI based sales system to a "new & better" web based system. The terminal UI was as you said, all on one screen, functions assigned to keystrokes. It had a learning curve, but was fast & powerful when you knew what you were doing. The Web based system was slower, with some functions hidden under numerous clicks and menus. Sometimes newer and shinier isn't necessarily better.

Agree. I see a lot of these new systems being beautiful, but completely unproductive if you are going to spend 40 years, with 8hrs a day on it.

And still, people hate vim, where you have all functionality at your fingertips.