If you are going to start investing in electronic health records, then the federal government had better step up to the table to cut some cheques, because that is the most expensive investment you can make in a health care system.
It is also probably in the long term the most effective way of using your money in long-term investment. But until we get electronic health records or some kind of sense to the mess we have, we're not going to be able to confront the realities and the real challenges of the future.