[nradov]

Your statement is factually incorrect. The US federal government has given little or no money directly to EMR vendors. Instead the HITECH Act grant funding went to providers to reimburse them for purchasing and implementing EMRs. And in order to receive that funding the providers had to demonstrate that they were actually using their EMRs in a meaningful way.

Most other countries don't have universal EMRs, and the ones who do aren't necessarily happy with them. One size doesn't fit all.