There are many that drive me nuts, mostly UI issues:
- Tab key not following conventions and moving the cursor to the next column in areas where it definitely should, like Surgical History or Hospitalizations when you enter a date and want to enter what the procedure was.
- Text size changing when you click on a field to enter text, so you can never actually place the cursor where you want it. This should be an easy fix.
- No standard hotkey to move to the next popup in the Progress Note. Instead you have to memorize a code of Alt-M, Alt-P, Alt-U, Alt-F, Alt-S, Alt-V, Alt-A, etc., which I’ve never even attempted to do. The button should read “Next - Prior Medical History” or “Next - Medication Reconciliation” with Alt-N being the shortcut to go forward, and the same being done with “Previous” and the back button.
But by far, the one that tries my patience the most:
- The back button on the Vitals popup takes you to Medication Reconciliation, even though the previous popup was Social history. Every time I am working through a note and want to go back to review a previous section, only to have it skip me all the way back to Medication Reconciliation, a part of me dies inside.
Maybe the UI is better on the HTML5 based version?
I don’t know that venting will change anything, because I imagine these UI changes would have happened years ago if that were the case. But it may be a little therapeutic to know I’m not alone.