With proposals and discussions about health care in the air, the service has actually improved quite a lot due to web services that has allowed medical organizations to get faster access to medical records. This has greatly reduced the waiting and guessing when it comes to medical care, no more waiting for forgotten medical records or messengers that have to transport vital medical information that can mean the difference between life and death.
ePrescriptions has had hiccups but overall they have allowed easier dispensing of drugs, no lost prescriptions that goes from the doctor’s computer or pda, directly to the drugstore or to an online database for retrieval and accurate dispensing. No lost prescriptions and unreadable ones (doctors have cryptic hand-writing that would be easier with a Rosetta Stone), just plain and simple lists with digital signatures as proof of authenticity.