The danger is that the doctor/nurse will trust the computer, and forget that
the female patient he sees rather often has a sister whom he sees only once in a
while. So the nurse doesn't verify ID and in an emergency the doctor gives the
wrong treatment. Verifying identity, and matching up patients with records,
is a medical function, which is why these things are done by trained nurses.
Do you trust medical functions to random software?
Years ago, in the days
of PDAs, a competitor came out with a video showing their portable device being
used by nurses. One example they showed was writing a prescription on the device
and having the device use handwriting recognition to digitize the prescription.
I have nurses in my family so I recognized how insane this was. I explained the
insanity to my boss and he passed it on to marketing, so they could kill our
competitor's product before it killed patients. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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