Hi James,
........ fact that we may have hated windows XP does not diminish our pain. Our field is medicine. A new diabetes drug, a new surgical technique, a new approach to chronic problem, are all changes we have to learn. These may take work, but they are in our field, and directly concern patient care.
Changes to Windows are not in our field. They do not improve patient care, they do not make our lives easier. At least for an old geezer like me, it takes a while to adapt to the changes in a new operating system. Usually, from my perspective, these changes are "changes for the sake of change" rather than changes to truly improve performance. So they are basically nuisances without a clear benefit.
And, at least for me personally, Windows 8 (without an aftermarket program to resurrect the start button) is a very very significant adjustment. I'm still not sure I would be able to use it, without Start8.
End of rant. Back to patients.
Gene
Doc you hit it on the head. In our office we had a billing and scheduling system that still ran DOS. It was completely obsolete,... and completely bulletproof. It was NEVER down, hacked, locked up or without its addresses.
The anticipated benefits of the EMR have been COMPLETELY erased by the unnecessary costs of updates and modifications to a system that is not yet mature enough to stand alone.
The iPhone when it first came out was a technological wonder, but subsequent "upgrades" have rendered it increasingly useless as what used to work doesn't and what is, requires ever increasing expenditures of time, to learn the system.
And I have posted this rant, which, like the upgrades we are all struggling with, is mostly useless. Sorry...
