My last experience in a hospital was Dec'21. ICU, at an old friend's bedside, in a large (500+ beds, "teaching") hospital that is part of a big (50+ hospitals) chain.
The nurses seemed excellent...but the amount of time and emotional energy they had to put into dealing with multiple computerized systems - just within my friend's room, to replace an empty IV bag - was staggering. The "smart" IV pump was the worst - a crappy little display, a minimized number of flaky buttons as the only interface, and the nurse had to drill down into multiple sub-sub-sub menu's to do even basic stuff.
My first thought was that you could triple nurse productivity (as in "care given to sick humans") if you had two IT tech's following each nurse around, tasked with doing all the "re-redundant data entry & dealing with computerized shit" that had obviously become the nurse's primary job.
My second thought was that interfaces which the nurse had to deal with should be restricted to 1950's-industrial-control-panel style - nothing but well-labeled, single-purpose physical buttons, switches, & dials. And the data entry that they had to do was restricted to wax pencils on well-laminated paper - which could be fed to a scanner, to update the patient records database. (Displays, say of vital signs & such, could be fancy. But the "50's control panel" rule could put an end to "oh, that information is hidden down in a sub-sub-sub-menu here..." shit.)
