Is that how the Care-Based Revenue Cycle strategy came about?
Not being totally dense, we understood that most of the spend would involve clinical systems. We knew that it would become more important that hospitals sustain themselves as a business and generate the margins they needed. We had a strong patient accounting and billing system. We also had an excellent HIM product and knew that the connection of the clinical systems through HIM to patient accounting would become more and more important. That’s how we came to the strategy that we call the Care-Based Revenue Cycle. QuadraMed can have great HIM and patient accounting systems, but if we don’t have a good clinical system, we won’t get into very many deals and we won’t have the system to feed that concurrent coded information for safety and reimbursement. The capture of all that information in its clinical richness was most important. So you bought the Misys CPR product, now called QuadraMed CPR or QCPR? We had to be frank with ourselves. The Affinity clinical system, unlike the patient acco
