Paper medical records were great for doctors. They made it really hard to switch providers. They were a great excuse for medical errors, or for "accidentally" ordering expensive redundant tests from their buddies. EMR had to be legally imposed on doctors because otherwise they would still be gleefully killing people through bad handwriting.
I still don’t understand how society was OK with hundreds of dollars per doctor visit just to get an illegible prescription for medicine that could harm you if read incorrectly.
