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xbryanx on Feb 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Whitespace killed an enterprise app

I think about this every time I watch some physician friends using Epic or any Electronic Health Records system. Those things are dense as hell and packed full of data and utility. You won't see a bit of wasted space. Different problems require different solutions.

tlrobinson on Feb 13, 2019 [–]

> You won't see a bit of wasted space

Ahem...

"How Medical Tech Gave a Patient a Massive Overdose" https://medium.com/backchannel/how-technology-led-a-hospital...

> Do you spot the problem? Perhaps not, since it is hiding in the middle of this dense screen,

(that quote is from part 2 of the series of posts)

Of course that's not the only reason this incident occurred, but it likely contributed to it.

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