Ah yes the famous physician (and even nurse) chicken scratch. Especially wonderful when what you’re looking at is a carbon.
Pharmacists’ jobs are secure. They’re the only ones who can read those hieroglyphics.
I have had occasion to sign legal papers on a computer screen, using a mouse. THAT is awful to do and to read. Those electronic pads where you sign with a stylus are only a bit better.
How does the pharmacist reconcile those signatures with the actual ones from people used to pen and paper?
This entire records plan looks to be a boondoggle. It will require a literal army of workers and will take a decade, at least, and that is if they start this second with all electronic records and just have to convert the older ones.
Then you have the problem of fires, floods, and all the other means by which records have been lost or damaged beyond repair, like mold, insects or rodents. I have personally had my own records at one clinic lost due to a move. Given that we are experiencing a period of incompetent workers, that we have been warned of a failing electrical grid and threatened with rolling brownouts, there could be scenarios where months of conversion work are lost to grid failure or to extreme turnover in workers. In some areas, the physical realities of life could make this plan utterly unworkable.
I don’t think our rulers understand that they may never have this vast database, let alone be able to use it as a control mechanism. Things will fall apart way before they even finish compilation.