Our medical records were supposed to join the information age: a single
repository with a person’s entire medical history, accessible to all who
should see it, safe from those who shouldn’t, easily mined to improve
individual care and the health care industry at large. Presidents Bush
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and Obama signed on to the movement, creating incentives for doctors to
switch to EHRs and penalizing them if they didn’t. The federal government
invested heavily in EHRs over the past decade, around $30 billion, trying
to achieve their widespread use. But we are still a long way off, and
before we get there, there are questions about data ownership and privacy
to be worked out.


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