Dr. Charles Shepard spoke to NewsHour health correspondent Susan Dentzer about the benefits and bumps along the road in using electronic health records.

Trace Devanny, president of Cerner Corp., spoke to NewsHour health correspondent Susan Dentzer about the difficulties in getting the U.S. health care system to adopt electronic record-keeping practices.

After the problems of the 2000 presidential elections, electronic voting machines were designed to make casting and counting ballots easier and more accurate. But recent problems encountered in several states using the new machines have raised concerns about their reliability…