Washington (SmartAboutHealth) - President-elect Barack Obama, as part of his health care reform plan, wants to make all medical records electronic, bringing everything into the digital era.

President-elect Barack Obama is working to get his health care reform plan put into motion.

The hope is that by making our health records digital, it will be able to cut costs and make our entire health care system far more efficient.

The belief is that even though the state of our economy isy rough, within five years all health records could be digital.

This is a part of the stimulus plan that President-elect Obama has been pushing to get past.

The cost to get all of our health records electronic would be around $100 billion over the next 10-years, as many hospitals are not ready to go digital.

The hope though is that by doing this, the entire health care system would be able to run in a far more efficient manner.

This would also create new jobs to get the entire program up and running for IT professionals and others.

In the end, this is all part of the bigger health care reform plan to help the 47 million Americans without health insurance.