Are Electronic Medical Records a Cure for Health Care?

a. Identify and describe the problem in the case.

b. What management, organization, and technology factors are responsible for the difficulties in building electronic medical record systems? Explain your answer.

c. What is the business, political and social impact of not digitizing medical records for individual physicians, hospitals, insurers, patients, and the US government?

d. What are the business and social benefits of digitizing medical recordkeeping?

e. Are electronic medical record systems a good solution to the problem of rising health care cost in the US? Explain your answer.