One big plus of moving towards electronic medical recording keeping is you open up a whole new market for advanced software that 1) makes hospitals run more eff

One big plus of moving towards electronic medical recording keeping is you open up a whole new market for advanced software that 1) makes hospitals run more efficiently 2) provider a higher level of care for the patient and 3) flag and prevent potential errors that could result in malpractice (thus lowering insurance costs across the industry) The software that does this isn't going to be built over night, and will likely take at least a decade to mature, but when it does the whole industry wins big.