Sutter, UC Davis Doctors Share Electronic Medical Records

As the push grows for hospitals, doctors and other health care providers to go paperless, the barriers that prevent wider use of electronic health records are slowly coming down. Sutter Health and UC Davis Health Systems, two of the capital region's largest medical providers, have joined forces to allow their doctors to instantly share confidential electronic medical charts across both systems.

The cooperation is an important development in advancing the use of electronic health records, which have the potential to revolutionize patient care, experts say.