Brainstorming ideas about the EMR

I find it fascinating that the health care field has been mandated to have an electronic medical record by the year 2012 (I think that is when it has to happen).  There are many reasons to have an EMR, and as a health care worker I can see the many advantages that would come from this.  A few angles that I'm researching now on the EMR are privacy, compatibility of programs, cost effectiveness and the relief that may come to the health care worker who has always struggled with reading doctors orders because they all took the class "doctor writing 101" where they learn to write so that no one can read it and therefore they believe it will be less of a chance for them to be sued if the wrong thing was done.  Just kidding, all joking aside, to be able to actually read an order and know who wrote the order either by electronic signature or an assigned number for the signature will be a relief for many and a struggle for many others....