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chhotiiI am transcribing here this paragraph from Hacking Healthcare almost word for word because it so beautifully hits the nail on the head:
YES!!! YES!!!!!! OMFG YES!!! This book is from 2013 and it recognizes this reality. And yet, years later I was complaining about the patient registration system and the hospital was like, we gotta know if the patient is really a girl. Eye-roll.
Many technologists are used to... exclusive options... for male or female. In fact, this is the perfect example of the type of two-value choices that are appropriate in typical software design... but totally inappropriate for clinical software. For any clinician there are at least three genders: male, female, and other (as in "You better pay attention to this clinical issue"). For any clinician who treats gender-related conditions there are many, many more. It is clinically dangerous to ignore gender-related clinical issues by forcing clinicians to choose either male or female...
...Checking to see how many options are available for gender is a great way to determine how mature an EHR system is. If there are only two choices, the software should be considered dangerously immature.
YES!!! YES!!!!!! OMFG YES!!! This book is from 2013 and it recognizes this reality. And yet, years later I was complaining about the patient registration system and the hospital was like, we gotta know if the patient is really a girl. Eye-roll.
