The data entry just gets dumped on residents, adding to their already absurd workload (and realistically gets done at the very end of their shift after being on call for 24-30 hours). There is no plausible way that this results in better accuracy.
The idea is great, but it just runs into an absolute brick wall of realities of the health care system and human behavior.
Has your wife ever come up with solutions? I've thought about trying to solve this data-entry problem in healthcare before, but it seems to be almost an admin/process issue.
Yes but doing that takes some time, and then correcting the numerous errors takes more time. So it's not necessarily more cost effective than using template data entry forms. Some doctors now dictate, and then rely on transcription services which use speech recognition to generate a rough draft followed by human transcriptionists to fix most of the errors.
The idea is great, but it just runs into an absolute brick wall of realities of the health care system and human behavior.