High-profile senators including Hillary Clinton continue to lobby for legislation requiring U.S. health care clinics to upgrade their ancient pen-and-paper reporting procedures to automated electronic medical record systems.
Clinton estimates that digitalizing essential medical records will save a staggering US$77 billion.
Ontario Health Claims for Auto Insurance (HCAI)
North of the American border, a group of Ontario auto insurance companies have collaborated with medical practitioner associations and government parties like the Financial Services Commission of Ontario and the Ontario Ministry of Finance to develop an electronic system for the provincial auto insurance industry called Health Claims for Auto Insurance (HCAI).
