It's not a "weird meme". It's my personal experience. You may be able to enter data quickly on a tablet but many of the physicians I work with still type(painfully slowly) with 2 fingers. Maybe drchrono will be appealing to younger physicians who are comfortable with tablets...but the average physician is old.
If I demo'd drchrono and it was slower than my current system you're not going to sell me by telling me that "I'll get used to it." They're definitely not going to sell any major hospital on drchrono unless they also offer a computer based interface. The "old dog" physicians will never figure out how to type on it.
this is a curious statement to me for three reasons:
1) the ipad has been hailed as a device for first time computer users—the very old and the very young or even the physically/mentally challenged.
2) if they type painfully slowly with two fingers on a tablet, how do they type on a laptop?
3) the layers of abstraction are much greater on a laptop than a tablet.
true, data input may be a little more tedious, but it will still be infinitely less tedious than dealing with paper files, with the added bonus of being instantaneously transferable should the patient be traveling. and if they are already using a laptop, then what is the dilemma?
anyway, the "old dog" argument strikes me as a lazy cop-out—but if true, doesn't bode well for the mental acuity of said old dogs. i've always assumed that doctors are innately curious, always trying new things tempered by the old things that work†. if these old dogs can't step out of their comfort zone to try something new, it doesn't give me much hope for their patients.
† i understand the toxicity of the new, when science claims to have found no difference between breast milk and formula, for instance, but gathering information does not necessarily equal an endorsement. and for the record, touch screens are very old technology, we just haven't been able to implement them in a mostly non-frustrating way until now.
many of the physicians I work with still type(painfully slowly) with 2 fingers
Aren't those the people for whom typing on a tablet software keyboard won't be any slower? Surely, if anyone does, it's fast touch typists who have problems with slowdown.
If I demo'd drchrono and it was slower than my current system you're not going to sell me by telling me that "I'll get used to it." They're definitely not going to sell any major hospital on drchrono unless they also offer a computer based interface. The "old dog" physicians will never figure out how to type on it.