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.