> Several countries are well on their way to this achievement, including Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland. Outside the E.U., countries such as Israel and Singapore also have very advanced systems, and after a rocky start, Australia’s My Health Record system seems to have found its footing.

When any country mentioned hits the population of a small or medium US state, let us know how it goes.

> Canada, China, India, and Japan also have EHR system initiatives in place at varying levels of maturity.

Apparently the author could not care less. Apparently even the WHO could not care less, given the linked document tells us nothing.

As always, it's the US versus the world, and the world is a giant nothingburger, save some flyover countries in Europe that could be part of Greater Germany or Greater Russia for all anyone cares. How is the UK, Germany, France, Russia, or China doing? Oh...

> The United Kingdom was hoping to be a global leader in adopting interoperable health information systems, but a disastrous implementation of its National Programme for IT ended in 2011 after nine years and more than £10 billion.

No doubt when the US gets the standards and apps done, the rest of the world will magically start working too. All the billions spent and the world piggybacks and gives nothing back, save, quite amusingly, China. As always.