What they are calling for is a set of standards (i.e. What is a Medical Record?), not an open source solution. Once they can define exactly what comprises a medical record and standardize it (ANSI, HL7, etc.), the open source community usually takes care of itself.

Poor understanding of IT jargon by a politician's office...what a shock...

The scariest part of that article is not what coding we will be doing in ten years, it's the comment from the high-level executives from the corporation. They essentially wanted to get rid of the democratically elected government:

I once had to listen to several high-level executives (for a previous company that shall remain nameless) waiting for the private corporate jet complain how inefficient it was that the country was run by democratically elected politicians as "they just didn't understand business".

Lift your eyes from your monitor and WAKE UP!!