This work explores two controversial examples of attempts to implement national shareable electronic health record systems. It explains why implementing electronic health records has been so fraught with difficulties and argues that the moral basis of recording and sharing health data needs to be re-thought.

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Digitalizing Healthcare: `Dangerous Enthusiasm´ or `Disruptive Innovation´? -- The Troubled History of Implementing EHRs -- Moral Orders and Justification in the Division of Medical Labour -- The Development of a National EHR in Australia I: Trials, Tribulations, and Uncertainty -- The Development of a National EHR in Australia II: The Struggle over `Personal Control´ -- The Development of a National EHR in England: The Summary Care Record -- Boundary Objects: Building EHRs at National and Local Level -- Conclusion: Moral (Re)Ordering and Rethinking the Electronic Record.