What if hospitals paid to implement EHR for their docs in IPAs, group practices, and soloists, and paid for the expense by having those docs sign over their stimulus money to the hospital?

A hospital which I am not allowed to name spent well over a hundred million implementing onr of the brand name solutions and later discovered they couldn’t handle the outpatient docs.  They asked me for some ideas.

Here’s my take.  Assume there are 1,000 of those docs – IPAs, groups, solo, each of who have alliances to perhaps several hospitals.

If I am the first hospital, it behoves me to drive whatever standardization there may be in may favor by leeting them use mine rather than anything else.  Make it easy, they stay, they are the hospital’s customers too.

Seems like this would also do wonders for cert, menaingful use, and connectivity.

And, why not get paid for it?