Far more concern about Linux user experience than the EHR user experience, and your life does not depend on the former

I find this ironic and striking:<br /><br />During my informatics postdoc I used a SparcStation-2 running UNIX and an old X Windows user interface.  Then a few years later, in the Windows 95 days, I installed Linux (an open-source UNIX-like operating system) on a PC and used various X Windows user interfaces on that, too.  There was a lot of debate on which features of which user interface made for the best usability, and more broadly, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience_design" target="_blank">user experience</a>.<br /><br />This debate continues as Linux in its multiple versions continues to be extremely popular.<br /><br />If the health IT sellers put as much time into considering the user experience presented by their products as does the Linux community and were as candid, as, say, the<b> Ubuntu Linux community</b> as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28user_interface%29" target="_blank">here</a>, there might not be physician rebellion groups like Twitter's <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/03/twitter-ehr-revolt-ehrbacklash.html" target="_blank">#EHRbacklash</a> springing up.<br /><br />-- SS

Far more concern about Linux user experience than the EHR user experience, and your life does not depend on the former

I find this ironic and striking: During my informatics postdoc I used a SparcStation-2 running UNIX and an old X Windows user interface.  Th...

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