• Reduce medical error
• Reduce cost
• Decrease wait time
  
• Share information
• Have portable and secure records

Patients

• Reduce duplicative tests
• Avoid repetition
• Involved in decision-making
• Predict and prevent disease

Hospitals

• Central data repository
• Streamline record
• Minimal investment in expensive infrastructure

Doctors

• Reduce liabilities/defensive cost
• Cut ADE (Adverse Drug Events)
• Tools for decision-making:
  - Latest treatment options
  - Identify drug interactions
  - Clinical decision support