This article in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/business/27record.html?_r=1 summarizes several aspects of electronic medical records and their potential impact on health care productivity. I believe that information technology will have the greatest postive improvement in health care and government (e-government) over the next few decades.
Government agencies like the Veterans Hospital Administration (VA Hospitals) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have the opportunities to influence the quality of life and the economic well being of the US in a significant way. Large companies in the healthcare IT industry such as Epic Systems http://www.epicsystems.com/index.php and Cerner Corp. http://www.cerner.com/ have a large opportunity to benefit society and their shareholders. Small companies like Blue Slate Solutions http://www.blueslate.net/site/homepage?url=homepage and DualAlign http://www.dualalign.com/index.html should enhance the quality of life of people and subsequently benefit from the Obama administration's investment in healthcare IT.
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I completely agree, especially given the risks of medical error associated with shoddy, incomplete or lost paper records.
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