Gail Kalbfleisch: Well, right now we’re going to continue working the priorities of the partners, but we see that we’re going to have an opportunity to pick a couple more very shortly, so right now we’re in the process of working with our partners to identify if those priorities have changed. Let’s face it. Throughout health IT, we have a lot of fast moving targets so therefore we need to go back and recheck those, but one of the areas, as Dr. Cullen said, is always going to be about working those interoperability issues that the federal partners see. And so when there’s an item come up that is an interoperability issue, we gather the partners together to try to work out what that interoperability solution will be so that we can do it together.
JIm Flyzik: Yeah. I guess that’s a challenge just identifying all the potential stakeholders out there, because there’s probably so many.
Gail Kalbfleisch: It is, and then one of the other high priorities that we’re going to do is that we are looking for potential, as Dave said, the DHA is working on shared services that we want to look at shared services across the federal government within health IT as well. And so we are looking for opportunities to promote and prototype shared services.
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