Meaningful use provides govt payments to alleviate the costs:

Incentive Program for Electronic Health Records: Issued by CMS, these final rules define the minimum requirements that providers must meet through their use of certified EHR technology in order to qualify for the payments for Stages 1 and 2 of meaningful use.

Anyway, you can see I've got an interest/experience in this stuff. When I first delved into Healthcare IT I could not believe how behind the times health care is. Scary/dangerous behind. A persons bank is vastly more high tech/intelligent than their physician, clinic or hospital. And banks make errors all of the time.