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@skyblond do you know if there is some sort of asian language short hand? If not chinese any of the languages that use kanji like charachers (single characters to represent words). Im curious about forms of shorthand that migbt be applied to such scripts.
@freemo If I'm not misunderstanding, there is some sort of short hand in Chinese, but mostly for professional usage, like clerk, but nowadays we almost exclusively use computer and use PinYin to type Chinese charactors, I can achive about 90 to 100 wpm (or cpm, c for character).
Here is a picture I found on the internet, it shows the markers for some character.
I think the doctor still use that kind of shorthands? I can never read those.
@skyblond In latin based letter languages shorthand is typically limited to secretaries. This is interesting.
When you say you get 100wpm are you coubting a word as a single kanji character?
@SpaceLifeForm @freemo @skyblond sorry to hear about this. Just wanted to say I completely agree. We forget just how much less friction there is for someone to just write things down on paper in a context where time and efficiency is so important. This isn't to say we should go back to using paper for everything but that we need to be mindful when designing technology sometimes it has to compete favourable against writing by hand and that this is actually not easy.
At least do a printout instead of having to wait on a slow cloud-based system.
In this case, I needed information that was days old so even if they kept a recent 48 hour chart printed out, it would not have answered my questions.
Plus, I was dealing with multiple doctors and they were not spending their time to read the online chart, so they could not answer questions quickly. I can not blame them, the software was so slow as to be nearly unusable.
@SpaceLifeForm @freemo @skyblond I am not surprised. Here in the UK we have some pretty antiquated IT systems in healthcare and the medical software development business is a bit of a wild-west of 'entrepreneurial' characters who have no medical training.
Also it is all well and good until the system fails and you have no information to work from.
Sometimes keeping a bit of low-tech capability going is a good operational decision.
@SpaceLifeForm @freemo @skyblond And if we are to do the technology thing, resilience should be built into it. Maybe let's not stick everything on a cloud server somewhere. A good approach would be to federate and balance the data in different locations. An even better approach would be to have some data available on-site and accessible offline, even on individual devices temporarily for information about individual in-patients being dealt with in each department.
One Saturday, I went into work. I was the only one there. There was a alarm going off. The fire department showed up about the same time as I did. Other tenants in the building could hear the alarm, so they called the fire department.
I did not have the key I needed.
It was a modem rack.
Fortunately, I had the phone numbers of key people written on paper. If I did not have those phone numbers, the fire department would likely have broken down a door to verify there was no fire.
@skyblond some doctors probably still use paper note taking. I find doctors can be a bit behind the times.