Broken Medicine Rant

Posted 26 January, 2010 in Uncategorized

What’s wrong with Medicine today?

Let’s design the most inefficient, error-prone, hackable system for transmitting medical information.

We’ll start by having persons with notorious handwriting, doctors, scribble in code onto a piece of paper.

Then, the afflicted person (the patient) jams that paper into their pants’ pocket and carries it down to a non-doctor (a pharmacy tech), who attempts to decipher the information and enter it into the computer.

If it’s a new pharmacy or a new doctor, they have NO IDEA what you’ve been prescribed before, or what you’re currently taking.

Why, why, why?