Editorial: Healthy development | The Columbus Dispatch

A federal grant to help build a statewide health-information exchange will help bring the medical-records part of health care into the 21st century.

News that the Ohio Health Information Partnership will receive two grants totaling $43.3 million, matched by about $8 million in state funds, puts the state closer to the day when doctors, hospitals and other medical-care providers will have easy access to the medical histories of the patients in front of them...