NHS IT is universally acknowledged to be a nightmare. The promise of technology is always that it will save time and make us more efficient. But the reality is that staff feel like slaves, feeding the ever-ravenous monster of the electronic health record with more and more data, more and more time. Time stolen from patients. Worse still, the monster never regurgitates the promised useful data.
It therefore felt like a huge win this week when I managed to get multistep voice commands working in Dragon and EPIC. This has dramatically reduced the time it takes me to do frequent routine tasks, and reduced my risk of RSI. A year after implementation I finally feel like EPIC might make my job easier, as was promised. The beast is not dead, but it has been tamed somewhat.
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