I have a background in software in the medical industry.
Pardon, but I find this very amusing. I say that because back in the late 1990s when HIPAA was just getting started I sat on a committee that was to design a “universal” medical record that could be used for any type of procedure or diagnosis. My fellow committee members were other software developers. We competed with each other. We decided fairly quickly that the goal of the committee was an impossibility and wrote a detailed paper explaining why.
The powers that be tossed the paper aside, sure that we were crazy. The committee disbanded shortly there after and the universal medical record, to my knowledge, was never developed.
This is the same mindset that designed this system.
IMHO, this system was poorly designed from the get go. Assuming nobama actually wants it to work*, it will require massive redesign.
*Bearing in mind that his plan is for nobamacare to fail so we’ll be forced into a single payer system.
It is obvious this system was never load tested. And, as another FReeper pointed out, their acceptance testing left a lot to be desired, too.
The errors where there are drop down boxes with no options are very basic, simple errors that the most rudimentary acceptance testing should have easily caught.