--- title: Why Electronic Medical Records Are Disappearing description: The problem with disappearing electronic medical records, why terrorists want us to panic, and more. canonical: https://time.com/4151627/disappearing-electronic-medical-records/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-16T17:05:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:44.416Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Electronic Medical Records Are Disappearing og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4151627/disappearing-electronic-medical-records/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Electronic Medical Records Are Disappearing twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Electronic Medical Records Are Disappearing by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 16, 2015 5:05 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 16, 2015 5:05 PM UTC **1\.** [**Why are electronic medical records disappearing?**](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/hospitals-arent-the-only-ones-bleeding-stolen-health-records/420636/) By Kaveh Waddell in the Atlantic **2\.** [**Stop fomenting panic. It’s what the terrorists want.**](http://time.com/4150041/michael-chertoff-stop-fomenting-panic/) By Michael Chertoff in Time **3\.** [**The war on drugs is also a war on the environment.**](https://news.vice.com/article/the-war-on-drugs-isnt-just-destroying-lives-its-also-killing-the-environment) By Eva Hershaw in Vice News **4\.** [**Are the Saudis getting serious about fighting ISIS?**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/12/15-saudi-led-islamic-coalition-against-terrorism-riedel?rssid=LatestFromBrookings) By Bruce Reidel in Markaz from the Brookings Institution **5\.** [**Here’s how business can lead on ending income inequality.**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inequality-problem-worthy-business-response-judith-samuelson) By Judy Samuelson in LinkedIn  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4151627/disappearing-electronic-medical-records/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4151627/disappearing-electronic-medical-records/"},"headline":"Why Electronic Medical Records Are Disappearing","datePublished":"2015-12-16T17:05:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:44.416Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4151627/disappearing-electronic-medical-records/","keywords":["Innovation","Drugs","Income Inequality","ISIS","Saudi Arabia"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4151627/disappearing-electronic-medical-records/","name":"Why Electronic Medical Records Are Disappearing"}}]}] ```