Pete Stark's 1992 health reform bill had a provision moving the system to fully electronic records. Calculating the lives that would have saved, not to mention the money it would have saved, is too depressing a task for your faithful blogger to engage in right now. But it makes it hard to argue that in the alternative universe where we moved towards a national health system in the early-90s that we'd have a less efficient and technologically capable health care sector today.
