The battle to move US healthcare from paper to digital far from over

If you have gone online recently to pay a hospital bill, request a prescription refill, or look at lab results, you are among the minority of people across the U.S. using technology to monitor your health. Moving patient health records from a paper-based system to an electronic one has long been a dream and a goal of doctors, hospital administrators and policymakers, but the effort has been anything but seamless, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. "If an ATM puts somebody else's money in your account, nobody dies," said Chuck Christian, board chair at the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. "But if we mess something up, it could very well impact someone's life."