Epic isn’t new, just new to Ireland. Hospitals and other healthcare in the US use this system already, hence the “made it to ireland”
It sucks shit. It’s slow, lacks the ability to attach meaningful Notes for the next person that searches a patient, nursing staff often don’t update it so family looking for them have to call floors anyway (because part of the point of attaching a room is to speed up visitation), descriptions of ORs and Surgery is so vague noone knows where the fuck a patient is if not in a room. (Kinda like a usps package!). Charting with it is difficult. But that’s just the opinion of some random nobody on the internet.
Kinda related. My wife is a nurse and her department has dealt with two patients who assaulted nurses the past few months. I just don’t get it, Amazon remembers that I bought a book in 2003 why can’t there be a system that flags patients that have assaulted medical workers previously? That way they can get security there before something bad happens again.
I am sure it wouldn’t be a perfect system but it would be better than the nothing we have now.
