Imagine that you are onboard an airplane that’s preparing for takeoff, and that your pilot suddenly announces that the navigational system is down but the flight will proceed anyway. Would you feel comfortable with this news? Probably not. Yet, often health care providers and consumers must fly blind, in a sense, making decisions without the benefit of sufficient health information. The National Health Information Network (NHIN) aims to solve this problem by ensuring that complete and accurate health information is available to consumers and providers. Achieving this ambitious goal, however, will require a radical transformation of our current health care system. Only the active and strategic participation of physical therapists (PTs) will ensure that the NHIN will meet the unique needs of the physical therapy profession and those it serves.