By and large, hospitals are in it for their patients. Innovations are discussed, and we do roll them out. I think the competitiveness is much less at this end of applied research, applied knowledge, than it is in some other places. No one's going to win a Nobel Prize for coming up with a better way to get your mother out of bed, as Dr. Fernie was talking, and yet it might be the most important thing to do. Right?
I'm not worried about the competitiveness. It's the incentive to be able to take those ideas, prove them, and then roll them out, which is why I like this credentialled hospital network concept, because that would get all the hospitals working together—a little bit of infrastructure money for all of them and they would then be responsible for getting those innovations out, or else they will fail in the next round of infrastructure funding.