From the RAND report [1]: "Some exceptions prove this rule. One of most successful health IT systems in use today is the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Vetera

From the RAND report [1]: "Some exceptions prove this rule. One of most successful health IT systems in use today is the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, which actively engaged clinicians in its development process.25 Health IT is widely credited with helping transform the Department of Veterans Affairs into one of our nation’s highest-performing health care systems.26–28" Something like 8 million people are managed by the VA records system [2]. Perhaps a solution would be to expand this existing system, with a demonstrated track-record, to the broader population. 1. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/32/1/63.abstract http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/32/1/63.abstract 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA