Here's to Your (Electronic)Health.

This article discusses the efforts of the United States government to improve its medical records system. The federal government has a plan to use information technology to fix this problem. The bad news is that the plan will take so long and cost so much to execute that it is hard to have confidence that it will ever come to fruition. Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its 10-year road map for the creation of a health information infrastructure. The aim is to create a consolidated electronic health record (EHR) for every American and to build a nationwide network for securely transporting those records to health care providers. Despite the complexity and un- certainty, few federal projects in recent memory have been as worthwhile as this one is.