Bush backs computerized medical records

...Bush appointed Dr. David Brailer to help coordinate the move. Brailer said if Americans' lives can improve by using eBay, there are great benefits to a sort of "medical Internet" where they can retrieve their personal health care information.

I want us to get away paper. I deal with, no hyperbole, millions of pieces of paper everyday, and I cheer computerization, but, and its a big but, putting our medical records on a "Medical Internet" (is this where he got the internetS thing?) is not going to make our lives easier. It will make the lives of the people who want to see our medical records with out our permission and with out our knowledge, much easier. Less paper is good, but, the thing about paper is you can lock up paper, you can keep it in a locked drawer in a locked room in a locked building. You can not lock up the internet.

from CNN.com