Mm-hmm

... somewhere in there, is when we brought in our CIO to start looking at the impacts and the potential transition of IT services and what that would take.

We didn't allow him to bring in team members at that time.

Basically, we just needed a high-level view until we could move forward, so that we could move forward and verify some of the assumptions about the cost to implement a, effectively a conversion of IT platforms from, uh, what Ascension had, which wa- across the hospitals we got, which was a mixed bag of systems, from Cerner to Athena to, uh, even, uh, Allscripts.

Um, you know, so you had a mixed bag of, of systems across those hospitals that were going to be part of the partnership versus us operating kind of on one instance of Epic across our entire platform.

And the idea...

Go ahead.

[laughs]