This crap was in the works long before 0bama arrived on the scene. I was once employed at a hospital in Mississippi that participated in an electronic records trial in the early 1990s. Of course it was a disaster billed as health care of the future.
The only ones benefiting from EMR are the vendors of computers and software.
I’d venture that far more than 50% of the records are unrelated to health care. A very large portion are for CYA from trial lawyers.
And you are absolutely Correct, I worked for FileNet the main driver in records management in the beginning and from previous experience watched for the “portability” and manageability of the information native to the Doctors work but burdened with all of the regulatory and as you say “butt covering” info for the “Lawyers”. Today it is still there in a very relevant topic and that is e-mail. People have become lazy, and or devious in using this as a convenient “cargo” vessel to send not only their words but typically some kind of “payload” such as a file attachment, pictures, Radar images, strategy conclusions.....
I take it this way as Hillary to me is more a matter of scale of her brashness therefore the volume of her crimes that need the data and the crime associated.
In Industry terms
Big Data..
EMR is a whole other Campaign and the NSA is deeply entwined due to Obamacare and others