So back in October of last year I got on a plane to Taiwan.

This is Dylan Scott, a health care reporter at Vox.

I traveled from the capital, Taipei,

to the east coast of the island.

You know, we flew over lots and lots of tall green mountains

to get there.

And I visited a little health clinic that serves the people who live in those mountains with my producer Bird Pinkerton.

So we have this lovely room with, I guess it's a little aquarium.

Okay, and why were you there?

We wanted to see this amazing electronic system that Taiwan has put in place.

It's an electronic health record that's based in the cloud.

Every citizen gets this little medical ID card

that has a chip in it.

And they can bring that card to a big hospital in the city

or to a tiny rural clinic like this one. And their doctor can

insert it into a machine and they can pull up their entire health care history

super super easily. There's everything there, the drugs they're allergic to, the vaccines they've already had,

their last six health care visits, and this saves time. It saves filling out paperwork, and it's helped Taiwan revolutionize their health care.

I'm Ariel Dum Ross and this is reset. Today on the show, Dylan Scott tells me about Taiwan's electronic medical records.

We'll see how their high-tech systems streamlines care for patients and doctors.

And we'll ask, why doesn't the U. the US have a system like this?

So Dylan, take me back to this rural clinic you visited.

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