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"Within five years, all of America's medical records are computerized," he announced in January 2009, when visiting Virginia's George Mason University to unveil his stimulus plan. "This will cut waste, eliminate red tape, and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests."
Unfortunately, in some ways, our medical records aren't in any better shape today than they were before.
THIS IS A personal issue for me—I'm one of those Americans with a dizzyingly complex medical history. In April 1997, two months shy of my 11th birthday, I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Over three years of chemotherapy—and the seizures, spinal compression fractures, sepsis infections, and debilitating nerve pain that came with it—I amassed a thick file of prescriptions filled, body parts scanned, and blood sampled.