>> If I needed something like lab results from the hospital computer, a nurse would leave and access it and fetch me a printout.
>> Everybody in the hospital is mobile now including the Doctors. Nobody is sending anyone to go fetch a file.
Around 15 years ago, I had a doctor in New Jersey. I asked his receptionist if I could email them a question.
"Yes! We signed up with a service - you send them an email, they print it out, and then they FAX it to us."