Dave Bowen: Well, Jim, there are a number of them and I think they’ve largely been touched on in terms of the previous discussion about priorities. I mean, certainly the whole data interoperability piece, you know, how do we make data more interoperable is a challenge. I think one of the things we’re facing in the DOD is the area of information assurance versus information access. Jeff just talked about that, but you know we’re also seeing, we’re also seeing the whole speed of technology and things moving much, much faster. And I guess for us in the defense department, one of my concerns is how do we, how can we keep up with the speed of technology change and get these new technologies deployed so our you know members and patients can take advantage of them and yet still those technologies assimilated into our overall information assurance strategy and structure and do that in a timely manner. I think that’s going to be a real issue for us.
The other thing I think is these technologies are going to largely take the sort of the healthcare factory that we call the hospital certainly to some extent out of the equation. You’re going to see much more telehealth, email interactions with physicians, things like that that’s sort of obviates the need to have to go to the hospital or go to the doctor’s office. So from a facility standpoint and we’re talking to our facilities people about this as they do the planning. You know, what does the future hold for the you know the traditional clinic or hospital and maybe those structures as we know them today sort of go away.
JIm Flyzik: Yeah. Very good.
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