Corita Anderson

What role do you see for M&A activity this year and the next few years?

That's such a great point, Rupal.

It's like the M&A, the acquisition deal doesn't stop with citing the papers.

It's continued work after that as well.

That's right.

Let's talk about tariffs.

That's one that you mentioned, and that's obviously a big one, not simply because of the ramifications that they could have, but also because of the uncertainty, right?

Yeah, it's going to be really interesting to see how this all plays out.

Absolutely.

Turning our attention a little bit to patient care, I wanted to ask you about an important area, pre and post acute care.

Talk more about this segment, you know, what's working, what's not, what needs to be done.

Mm-hmm.

How would you advise health systems go about accelerating their pre and post acute care initiatives?

You also mentioned, Rupa, the concern with workforce deficits among physicians and nurses.

Say more about that and what healthcare leaders are doing to address that challenge.

So let me start with physicians.

A running theme in many of your responses, Rupal, has been the role that AI could play and technology could play to ease some of these hurdles that we face.

Talk a little bit more about that.

Maybe we can spend the last stretch of our conversation digging into AI.

That's really interesting, Rupal.