by Matt Peters Ten years ago, the U.S. reached a milestone. The White House announced on May 24, 2013 that more than half of the nation’s doctors were using electronic health records. A few years prior, in 2008, that figure was only 17 percent. “Information is the lifeblood of modern medicine,” the announcement went on, ”but information can’t get where it needs to go when it’s on paper.” To address the limitations of paper-based medical records, the federal government invested $36 billion to improve health information technology and digitize our medical data. Unfortunately, our data still isn’t getting where it… Read More