Future of health care is digital

Today, only 9 percent to 12 percent of physicians in the United States have access to full-fledged electronic medical records. Among advanced nations, the use of medical information technology here ranks among the “worst of the worst,” Crounse said. The United Kingdom spends 10 times as much as the United States on health IT, said Bradford Hesse, chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute.
“We have clearly failed to keep our population healthy,” said Bosworth of Google, who noted that tracking the advance of obesity and diabetes in the United States has been “like watching an alien virus spread across the country.”