Jamie: Are you ready for the what?

George: What?

Jamie: What we are going to do first?

George: When?

Jamie: First.

George: What?

Jamie: That is what I want to tell you.

George: That took longer than it should have.

Jamie: Hopefully you won't say that when we are done with the first stage...

George: Which is?

Jamie: "The foundation stage"

George: I think my grandfather used to ride that....

Jamie: Sigh....We will be laying the foundation for the next clinical stages over the coming months

George: How will we do that?

Jamie: By converting our current billing, registration, ADT, scheduling (including surgery), general financials, human resources, payroll, materials management and emergency department tracking and triage to their counterpart systems in Epic and Lawson.

George: That sounds like a lot for a stage....

Jamie: We are making sure that we have enough input (100+ staff in addition to our Corporate Information Systems staff) to help this stage be successful.

George: How far along are we with Epic?

Jamie: We started Epic in January and we are aiming to be done with this stage next summer. How about with Lawson?

George: We had the formal project kickoff this week and we are headed for an October 1, 2009 go live.

Jamie: Let's talk about the major steps the next time we check in.