A key provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, goes into effect on January 1, 2014. A federal mandate requires public and private healthcare providers to maintain digital medical records of their patients.
If the healthcare providers fail to move to electronic medical records they will be penalized in the form of reduced Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements starting in 2015.
We recently did a survey of 202 US residents to get their thoughts around healthcare. From that: 61% supported online medical records with many more males supporting this than females.