From that AP link:
‘OBAMA: “They’ll be jobs building the wind turbines and solar panels and fuel-efficient cars that will lower our dependence on foreign oil and modernizing our costly health care system that will save us billions of dollars and countless lives.”

THE FACTS: The economic stimulus bill would allocate about $20 billion to help hospitals and doctors transition from paper charts to electronic health records for their patients. Research has shown that in some instances, electronic record keeping can eliminate inappropriate services and improve care, but it’s not a sure thing by any means. “By itself, the adoption of more health IT is generally not sufficient to produce significant cost savings,” the Congressional Budget Office reported last year.’

Heh.
For a much smaller population, and an already centralised State Health service, the costs here in the UK are to date 13 billion.
They’ve been working on it for years, ever since NuLab came to power - its not working, its a shambles, and it will cost even more.
And the hugely important point of security of these eminently private data has not been proeprly addressed either.

Good luck with that, PB0 - dunno if IT fimrs will be so keen to waste time and resources on a bottomless pit, after their experiences in the UK.