In a 2010 letter to President Obama, signed by John P Holden, Director of the Office of Science and Technology, and Eric Lander, President, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; they concur that a digital conversion of medical records will outweigh the cost. An excerpt of the letter: “Information technology can help catalyze a number of important benefits including improved access to patient data, which can help clinicians as they diagnose and treat patients and patients themselves as they strive to take more control of their health”.

The government reports this switch to digital records will create roughly 212,000 jobs.  Further it estimates it will save billions by reducing medical errors, and duplicated test by reason of lost records.

The Government’s Paperwork Elimination Act of 1998 paved the legal way for the validity of electronic records and signatures more than a decade ago. Specifically this GPEA as it is called prohibits the courts from treating electronic documents and signatures less favorably than their paper counterparts.

Some cite security issues as the medical professions reason for hesitancy to enter the digital age. However the technology for security measures is obviously in place, as most of the world relies on this technology for banking transactions and has for years. Of course there are hackers and the possibility of system failures with any computerized system.  The risk of a computerized system failure though is no greater than the risk of a paper medical file being lost, misplaced or stolen. Public acceptance of an electronic banking system has not waned due to past problems, nor will it provided that the system is standardized, streamlined and can be relied upon at least as much as our current banking system.

Overall Americans are more mobile than ever.  The need to have records available across many providers and health care systems has never been greater.

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